#promise

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. ↗

— Martin Luther

#books #every #leaf #lord #our

I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going. ↗

— Barbara Mandrell

#believe #blesses #eager #feet #first

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. ↗

— Francis Marion

#fruit #japanese #like #make #often

The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams. ↗

— Ed Markey

#brown #child #color #decision #dreams

Love is a promise delivered already broken. ↗

— Steve Martin

#broken #delivered #love #love is #promise

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them. ↗

— John McCarthy

#forget #forgetting #get #harmful #made

Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong. ↗

— Lord Edward Cecil

#agreement #between #both #compromise #men

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#fact #greater #harmony #hope #matter

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise. ↗

— George McGovern

#american #because #believe #deeply #diminishing

As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them. ↗

— James McGreevey

#came #climbed #compromises #easy #electoral