#promise

The devil is compromise. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#devil

It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again. ↗

— Wynonna Judd

#again #anyone #anything #child #corny

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out. ↗

— Paul Kagame

#flexibility #sign #think #weakness

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done. ↗

— John Keegan

#been #committed #compromise #courage #devotion

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble. ↗

— John Keegan

#diplomat #diplomats #get #into #most

The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men. ↗

— Nguyen Van Thieu

#fight #freedom #help #keep #lost

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#around #begged #beyond #choosing #could

You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#am #bully #day #education #every

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#about #actually #agree #bills #congress