#promise

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#adversary #compromise #conflicting #deprived #due

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time. ↗

— Sarah Brightman

#i #person #sort #time #wife

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#be happy #beyond #commencement #everything #fine

The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done. ↗

— Charles Williams

#against #back #church #done #feel

Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect. ↗

— Ian Williams

#expect #into #larger #make #many

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself. ↗

— Toby Keith

#compromise #even #hurts #yourself

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#computer #every #i #laptop #massage

The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.' ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#birth #gave #land #optimistic #pessimistic

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision. ↗

— Ed Wood

#because #cannot #compromise #finish #going

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible? ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#death #fight #impossible #lower #lower taxes