#promising

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

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I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish. ↗

— Anita Brookner

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The Republicans I know or the conservatives I know, they disagree with what the Republicans are doing in Washington because we are compromising too much. ↗

— Mo Brooks

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I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal. ↗

— John Burns

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Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

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Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven. ↗

— Charles Williams

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Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising? ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

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Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little. ↗

— William J. Clinton

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