#promise

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#compromise #fall #get #herself #impossible

If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises. ↗

— David Cameron

#across #care #get #going #got

The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#cannot #compromised #east #further #iranian

You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again. ↗

— Cher

#again #already #apologize #dressed #grown-up

One promises much, to avoid giving little. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#giving #little #much #promises

Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#keep #made #medicare #must #promises

I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#american dream #believe #children #dream #grandchildren

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#complete #delivers #friends #hands #i

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#disappear #fulfill #magic #make #people

War is the cemetery of futures promised. ↗

— John Cory

#futures #promised #war