Quotation Explorer - 'Promis'

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. - Dag Hammarskjold
Beware of the thief who is after your cash; but be more cautious of the thief in the mind that's after your kind, your promise - your dream, your future. - Bernard Kelvin Clive
A Thousand's of Promises made by us, but need one reason to Forget all...! - Nikhil Karke
Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away. - Gail Collins
The brand building process is a marathon that takes time with patience, persistence, consistence, and authenticity to deliver on your unique promise of value - Bernard Kelvin Clive
The Rainbow is a promise - Mary Clark Dalton
Even when the odds are overwhelming, you can believe in God and His promises. - Jim George
A no hurts but a broken promise hurts more, Listening to a no is not easy but a shattered wish stabs more! Don't ever promise anything that you will not be able to give, BECAUSE THE HEART BREAKS INTO A ZILLION PIECES WHEN PEOPLE PROMISE BUT DON'T GIVE . - Akanksha Wadhavkar( Motivational poems for starlit souls)
Whenever i see someone fighting me for no reason, I'm always highly impressed that God has instigated his anger against me, just as he did to pharoah against the Israelites, so as to cast me away into my promise land of fulfilment. - Michael Bassey Johnson
People who live up to their words shouldn't make blind promises. - Amit Kalantri
Commitment is another name for relationship not the compromise. - Santosh Kalwar
People sell their soul in such small quantities - a seemingly trivial compromise here, a rationalization of a minor evil there - that they don't realize what they're doing until it is too late. - Mike Klepper
The primary duty of every minister is to lead people into the Promised Land. - Sunday Adelaja
Andi would close my eyes foreverif you promise to let me stay in your dreams - Aditya Kandari
The condemned man’s voice is laced with dark promise as he continues. Remember Father, evil is simply ‘live’ spelt backwards." Hellbound - David McCaffrey
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change. - Jane Goodall
And truths, these days, are spokenThe same way promises are made,With gritted teeth and crossed fingers. - Sanhita Baruah
To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him. - Charles R. Swindoll
And because when all the words of promises and memories fade, these words that are written are the only one that remain. People may change and things may happen when we least expect it to but all these written words are what will keep it all alive. Over and over again. It remains. - Diana Rose Morcilla
Clear skies do not promise rain. - Matshona Dhliwayo
There's an invisible thread with this universe that connects some people regardless of circumstances. Life should not be the compromises that fail to realise this thread...Life should be a journey to explore and realise this invisible thread - Dipin Damodharan
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing. - Edmund Burke
Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness. - Robertson Davies
And it was darkSo dark at nightAnd we held on to each otherLike brother to brotherWe promised our mothers we'd writeAnd we would all go down together - Billy Joel
When you have a dream and someone makes promises they keep breaking, it is hard to recover. You lose hope. - Yasmine El Rashidi
It will take some time to adjust, but I promise you, this will be a real adventure for all of us. - Jessica Haight and Stephanie Robinson
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. - Louis D. Brandeis
But why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live, as if everybody else is inadequate? Why can't they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?
...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed... - John Geddes
Do more than expected, promise less than you can keep. - Debasish Mridha
If you could stay as stubborn as when you were a child then you need not to compromise on your dreams. - Amit Kalantri
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing." ~ - Margaret Thatcher
Sometimes people are shocked by what I do, but I'm not trying to be liked, I speak my mind and I don't care what people think. I truly do not compromise on who I am. - Nuno Roque
i promise you that i won't promise you anymore.,,, - Rahul Yadav
Dream lofty dreams, as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you one day shall be: your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are.
We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar. - Sigmund Freud
When the world caves inStill my hope will clingTo Your promiseWhere my courage endsLet my heart find strengthIn Your presence - Hillsong
Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything. - Søren Kierkegaard
Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
I promise to pay you before you die - but you have to promise not to die. - Jim Baen
Do you Believe? Do you Fade like a Dream?Let me hear you BREATHELet me watch as you sleepThe Sparrow's Eyes... Promises shift into judgmentsI cannot deny that you were designed for my punishments - Slipknot
A year ago, you fell into my arms and I felt some crazy connection to you. I'm sure as hell not good enough for you, and I'm sure as hell not making any promises, but I'm damn sure you were worth waiting for. - Victoria James
Her Brooklyn accent only comes out when she's angry. This is the best part....I pick at my pancakes while she tells me, simply, "It's ok to change your mind." About a feeling, a person, a promise of love. I can't stay just to avoid contradicting myself. I don't have to watch him cry. - Lena Dunham
Every divine promise is built upon four pillars; God's justice or holiness, which will not suffer Him to deceive; His grace or goodness, which will not suffer Him to forget; His truth, which will not suffer Him to change; and His power, which makes Him able to accomplish.
Every man is subconsciously promiscuous, but it is the conscious mind that keeps those primordial urges in check. A healthy brain creates a healthy mind, which keeps your relationship strong, safe and healthy. - Abhijit Naskar
A baby is a flower of hope, a song of eternity, and a promise of love and beauty of humanity. - Debasish Mridha
Romance is a tender kiss with a lingering promise of more to come. - Tim Campbell
Purple Mike promises to be an intriguing read that will teach anyone who wants to know about the highs and lows of drug addiction. Purple Mike is a legal, natural high. Enjoy reading. - Sin Mils
Promise yourself that you will not leave this world before accomplishing what is important to you and what matters for the world. - Debasish Mridha
Always - the shortest, un-keepable promise of mortals. - Ng Ka Wai
I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it. - Eugene V. Debs
The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the old an uncompromising allegiance to the Sermon on the Mount. It is high time people banded together to do this. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life. - Shannon Hale
God promises neither good life nor good health but live your life the way it is planned by you and fate. - Bashir F. Biodun
Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.
Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river. - Nikita Khrushchev
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. - Robertson Davies
Disappointment, fear, grief, unlove, dullness and guilt are the worst feelings. Learn from them so that you move on. Then replace them with more satisfying and promising joy, love gratitude, pride, confidence, direction. - Diana Jaber
But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept. - Sheila Walsh
What sort of a god are you, my Lord? Your punishments seem barbaric to me. Either that or we are more god-like and you’re merely human-like. - theguywiththebrokenpromise
I don't guarantee you to be a good man,I promise you will be a better man - Unbekannt
But they promised us everyone would return someday…when it was safe. Her voice cracked at the end.You’re being stupid again. Trusting in what they say. Disdain dripped from his words like pus from an infected wound. - TC Avey
Find what makes you happy and go for it with all your heart. It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it. - Charlotte Eriksson
For every summer & every summer after.Promise your-self to bare a bit more.To take things to a new level.To reinvent. To reflect back.To keep things humble.To tie up loose ends &Let the Sparks Fly... - Jennifer Pierre
Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust. - Roy T. Bennett
In the boundaryless forests, there’re dancers of nude.Yet in the confines of pasture, there’s promise of food.On which is your side?Ô, but tarry and bide,ere you decide,in both do confide. - Roman Payne
Fools put trust in promises; The wise in action. - A. Spencer
In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. - Junot Díaz
The matters we or the world might consider trivial, He cares about and wants to remedy. He longs to relieve our worries and has promised to supply our most fundamental needs. - Charles R. Swindoll
A wife and a promissory note are never lost (they will allways find you)
I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me. - Coco J. Ginger
It has been my observation that whatever a person hungers for, Satan will appear to offer in exchange for a spiritual compromise. - James C. Dobson
God never promised life would be fair, but He did promise He would be there. - Danny L Deaubé
Nothing in life is promised. Each day is a valuable opportunity to play an important role in this world. Treat each moment like it's the performance of a lifetime; approach every show like it's your first, respect it as if you've invested years, appreciate it like it's your last. - Carlos Wallace
Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.
If you value your words, people will not ask you to make any promises. - Amit Kalantri
She'd never tolerated deception regarding her strong opinions--that much was true. But wasn't it also true that when it came to trying to please in matters that weren't crucial to her, that didn't compromise her sense of things, she had been dishonest? - Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera
You promised me Heaven...And put me through Hell! - Bon Jovi
Compromise is only comfortable to the man who is outside the presence of God. - Joe Joe Dawson
Happiness comes in many forms in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else’s dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It’s okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be. - Lucas Scott
It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity. - César Chávez
The promised return of Christ should motivate you toward daily holy living. - Jim George
Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life. - Elizabeth George
Often times we allow ourselves to become impatient, by viewing God’s promises based on our human knowledge. Our thoughts and ways are irrelevant in his judgment to grant any of our requests. We need to have patience and trust in God for answers to our requests. - Ellen J. Barrier
Regardless of gender, one has to be willing to take what belongs and what has been promised, by not backing down and by not giving up. Never be willing to throw in the towel and accept defeat! - Ellen J. Barrier
Life isn't a promise; it's a present - Darrius Garrett
Never make a promise you can't keep.Never look down on a person you can't help.Never solicit a question you can't answer.Never judge a person you don't understand.Never condemn a person you don't know. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Forgiveness is a promise not a feeling. When you forgive other people, you are making a promise not to use their past sin against them. - Brett
Make every day count, because you're never promised a next day. - Auliq Ice
Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.
When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own. - Gordon Atkinson
Compromise? That's when you give away half the things you want. That's when you give the other guy half of what's rightfully yours. - Sue Grafton
I forgive you, only if you promise to be happy in whatever you do. - X H
She wore her scars, and looked as best as she could. He made her comfortable and removed them one by one. She stood bare in front of him. He kissed her naked soul and tattooed a promise on her skin - Himanshu Chhabra
Trust is the residue of promises fulfilled. - Frank Navran
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. - Evelyn Waugh
No, I don't have a heart of gold. It's normal - the one that gets hurt by rude words and broken promises. - Saru Singhal
Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does. - Karl Germain
You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition - Philippa Gregory
Promise a lot and give even more.
A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope and expect will be a permanent and fertile mating relationship. This we call marriage. - C.D. Darlington
Persecution for Christians is not a possibility, it's a promise, it's not a maybe, it's a surely! Following Jesus can mean finding the trouble you've been looking for! - Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the possibility of living beyond what our lifetime allows us to. - Camilo Gomes Jr.
God will never delay His promise.You have delayed Him. - Mac Canoza
Your values create your internal compass that can navigate how you make decisions in your life. If you compromise your core values, you go nowhere. - Roy T. Bennett
Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler. - Charlotte M. Mason
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this. - Gordon Atkinson
Jesus never wrote a book; never went outside his country. His only legacy was to never compromise the good. And it was more than enough for the world. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Promise yourself to forgive everyone, love everyone, and judge no one. - Debasish Mridha
I'll always be there for you.I promise to protect and nurture you.Hopefully one day soon, true Autism acceptance will besomething that just is. - Tina J. Richardson
Success is a choice; a promise that you make to yourself to keep moving forward. - Elizabeth Bourgeret
The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without. - Eric Hoffer
Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise - Debra Anastasia
Love is multidimensional...Don't just say; DO.Don't just speak; ACT.Don't just promise; DELIVER. - Steve Maraboli
Christ’s Atonement provides more than an opportunity to live a happy life later; it promises and provides for a remarkable life now. - Toni Sorenson
Truth is non-negotiable and its promise is love. - Maria Erving
Love is not about making promises but it's about believing, no matter how far you are or how frequently you talk, you know you both are made for each other - Anamika Mishra
Commitments are obviously made by people who can keep their word not like the losers who just keep promising… - - - Cocoy McCoy
When you love and already have someone,you should keep the promise you take!Because you don't know, how dangerous or weak can love do.-when you hurt someone's heart.You don't notice but suddenly you losing that person. - Redzel Romulo
Marriage requires maturity. Marriage requires two people who, for the rest of their lives, are willing to listen, to really listen to each other. And that marriage requires the greatest of all things, compromise. - Coach Taylor
Gleaming shell of an outworn lie; fable of Right divine—You gained your crowns by heritage, but Blood was the price of mine.The throne that I won by blood and sweat , by Crom, I will not sellFor promise of valleys filled with gold, or threat of the Halls of Hell! - Robert E. Howard
...I thought, God, I promise to stay a virgin, just please don't let anyone probe me. - Stephanie Tromly
Doubt births negative confessions; it hinders God’s promises and it spurs thedevil into action! Don’t give the devil any propelling force against your life!God is able in all situations; only when you believe! - Ayobola Olusegun-Emmanuel
Illusion close to reality was your love, you certainly are quintessential with your licks and promises. - Na
Tomorrow is promised to no one. - Clint Eastwood
Some people are more interested in making good on a promise—rather than in doing what they promised. - Clifford Cohen
If I am to have faith when I pray, I must find some promise in the Word of God to rest my faith on - R.A. Torrey
I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many. - Viet Thanh Nguyen
Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don’t even see. It’s a messy business, bringing peace into the world. - Bono
I pledge to love Jesus more than anything or anyone. And you are next in line, God’s remarkable gift to me. I promise to protect, honor, and cherish you for the rest of our lives. - Robert Wolgemuth
Jesus promises a life in which we increasingly have to stretch out our hands and be led into places where we would rather not go. - Henri J.M. Nouwen
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. - Walter Bagehot
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. - Abraham Lincoln
Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them. - Roy T. Bennett
Don’t promise when you’re happy, don’t reply when you’re angry, and don’t decide when you’re sad. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
May every sunrise hold more promise and every sunset hold more peace... - Umair Siddiqui
It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us. - Stephen Davey
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. - Ayn Rand
Promise me that if you become a Christian you'll become a Presbyterian.
We all have had our share of broken promises.. Learn from those who do not honor their words and put your focus on "Being Honorable" ~bns - Bluenscottish
I don't like the memories because the tears come easily, and once again I break my promise to myself for this day. It's a constant battle. a war between remembering and forgetting. - E.E. Cummings
You can put off your dreams, your desires, your careers, your farms. You can avoid your responsibilities, obligations, promises, and sovereign rights. But any person who wants to make music, and doesn't, is a goddamned fool. - Jenna Woginrich
Your promise is someone's hope. Keep your promises. - Tarang Sinha
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
All the promise of a movie is in the trailer. - A.D. Posey
Life doesn’t always go our way. But one thing we know and can stand upon. Jesus has burst open the gates of LIFE. So we look ahead with great joy. The Story of God is one of hope, promise and life eternal. - Anusha Atukorala
Sometimes you want to stay with someone, not only because it's magic and it's promising and it feels like home; but sometimes you find someone and you want to stay with him (or her)—because you're the same kind of animal. - C. JoyBell C.
surprise it's better than promises - kayser U
Money promises more than it delivers; love delivers more than it promises. - Matshona Dhliwayo
There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion. - Frédéric Bastiat
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. - John Lennon
Guess it's high time we add the 8th vow in marriage promising that we shall spend time with our husband or wife more than with social networking sites! - Manasa Rao Saarloos
While we wait for the promise, we keep working. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Once Trump got his hands around this promising idea, he basically strangled it. - Joe Nocera
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. - Nikita Khrushchev
My truth is mine alone; as yours is yours. For this reason, I hear and see you free of judgement, fear, anger, and resentment. This is my promise to you. This is my gift to me. - E. Patricia Conner
If we are to have real faith, we must study the Word of God and discover what is promised. Then, we must simply believe the promises of God. Trying to believe something that you want to believe is not faith. Believing what God says in His Word is faith. - R.A. Torrey
He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he’d come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can’t be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay. - Charlotte Eriksson
Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from - from ignorance, oppression, poverty - and freedom to - to do new things, to make choices, to learn. - Koichiro Matsuura
To find love, joy and peace for the humanity, let us promise to build a peace loving and a kind family. - Debasish Mridha
Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods,no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine. - Anaïs Nin
Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs. - Jennifer Elisabeth
Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out - Ben Marcus
Marriage is the best compromise between nature and culture. - Thiruman Archunan
We are still living with the ideology of compromise, not with the ideology of recognition - Dipin Damodharan
Within Eros, there is (the) promise; within Love there is (the) Truth. - Noetis
He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can't have will fit in a human hand. - Barbara Kingsolver
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. - Janis Joplin
Every relation need adjustments to survive, but those dies where one compromise.. - Debolina Bhawal
When it comes to morals & principles, a man in the 'real' world has two options; compromise or wait for sometime and then compromise. - Mohammad Rafiq Teli
Insurance business is about promises and trust. It is about delivering to the customer in times of need and if this cannot be imbibed in a professional neither him nor the industry will succeed. - Tapan Singhel
Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none. - Amit Kalantri
Technology - with all its promise and potential - has gotten so far beyond human control that its threatening the future of humankind. - Kim J. Vicente
The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises. - Steven Erikson
Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens. - Jason Whitlock
Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity - Yatin Patel
...because you are young and you live in a confusing world of gray shades where compromises are easy and often."Keep you heart right. - Phạm Đức Trung Kiên
It takes no compromise to give people their rights...it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression. - Harvey Milk
[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism andcompromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting itinstead into meek subservience to authority. - Walter Karp
The Napoles scandal showed that some politicians are the same all over the country. They promise to build bridges when there are no rivers. - Miriam Defensor-Santiago
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. - Robert Frost
IF WE BELIEVE IN VICTORY WITH NO STRUGGLE, THEN OUR FAITH IS COMPROMISED..!! - AHMED KULHAJI
How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made? - Dan Savage
Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. - Janis Joplin
Your promise is someone's hope. It hurts when hope shatters. Keep your promises. - Tarang Sinha
Most people are willing to promise you a lot. A few are those who can promise you a little, just as much as they can. - Ljupka Cvetanova
I made a lot of mistakes, one of them was to promise. I must stop promise, the promise is like something which you in everytime in any case you must do what you said you will do! - That's why I hate it! - Deyth Banger
A promise is something that has been given but not yet realized. - Todd Stocker
To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. - Henry David Thoreau
He that promises most will perform least. - Gaelic Proverb
Delayed gratification hints that something terrible is going to happen, and then delays the resolution. It’s that interval between the promise of something awful and it actually happening, where suspense resides. - Sandy Vaile
Begin each day with a promise to self to be grateful ,be kind .be authentic your day will meet your intent ~bns - Bluenscottish
gimme thousands of choices of joy and glory. gimme dreaming promises that lift up my intention.I won't take one of them at all cos I've chosen my own and it's you - neo wasiman
Pain in the wilderness is an investment in pleasure in the Promised Land. - Matshona Dhliwayo
God always keeps His promises. - Jim George
We believe more readily in the abstract application of God's promises than we do in their application to us personally. - Matt Chandler
If you compromise your core values, you go nowhere. - Roy T. Bennett
There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into the Promised Land Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later. - Dejan Stojanovic
I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree. - D.R. Silva
You can live each day in the confidence of God’s promises. - Elizabeth George
It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living. - Robert E. Howard
We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favored heroes attain-not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. - C.S. Lewis
watch out for schools that promise your kids will "experience success." I'm teaching Plato's Dialogues these days, and I noticed that Socrates never let his students experience success. Socrates won the argument every time. - David Kahn
People think - Rebel, Adamant, Egoistic, Impractical, ProudMy answer - Unconventional, Fighter, Uncompromising, Dreamer, God's Masterpiece Perception Matters - Henna Sohail
We are born for the happiness. We are living for the happiness. To be happy we have to be morally free. To be morally free we have to treat the humanity with uncompromising sincerity. - Debasish Mridha
IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy or adopting either of two conflicting opinions. - Ambrose Bierce
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: your dollar will go further. - Wernher Von Braun
The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! (The best laid schemes of Mice and Men oft go awry, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy!) - Robert Burns
Facing the world full of confidence is sometimes out of your league particularly if you have come up against or been compromised by adversity in some form. - Auliq Ice
Most people have fear to compromise with life.You got to take the reins of your life in your own hands, and direct it yourself.You decide how you use your time. - Kristin Ketelslegers
Generations of parents have upheld this line if thinking. When a daughter showed a promise of talent, they saw it as a curse and worried that she would die young. Eventually, the very lack of talent became a sure sign of virtue for women. - He Zhen
‎Lipstick is really magical. It holds more than a waxy bit of color - it holds the promise of a brilliant smile, a brilliant day, both literally and figuratively. - Roberta Gately
The best promises forever seem to be made by amnesiacs. - Chris Gould
…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change? - Jean-François Lyotard
To forgive' is divine they say, and 'to forget', attracts blessings, but to go a step further, and learn a lesson from a bad encounter/ experience is an act of wisdom;and promise oneself that you will never allow yourself to be exposed to such a thing or a person or even an idea again. - Henrietta Newton Martin
Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art. - Joyce Carol Oates
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. - Norman Mailer
I can promise you that women working together linked, informed and educated can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet. - Isabel Allende
Hope is the moonlight filtering through the trees,Hope is the silent prayer that we make in distress,Hope is the promise that we make to ourselves,Hope is the happiness that we visualize, Hope is the horizon that we reach, if we try! - Balroop Singh
Within every heart's Winter sleeps the promise of Spring. - John Mark Green
*Forever* is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy - Phyllis McGinley
Economics has made good on its promise to deliver prosperity and democratic freedom to much of the world, but in doing away with the age-old problems of humanity, it has opened up a crisis of an entirely new variety. - Philip Roscoe
Yesterday’s gone, let it go, It’s not possible to bring it back. Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. Today is a new day! make the best of it, tomorrow is not promised. - Ane Krstevska
when you make mistakes,take your time to make corrections;that which helps in building up your INTELLIGIENCE but when you compromise in making corrections,you may end up being a FAILURE - faroun olamilekan ayomide
So I'll be your queen if you'll be my king,My knight to defend my claimed heart.I need no crown, just your last name and a ringAnd the promise you'll never depart. - Phar West Nagle
Brand integrity is the ability to present one’s brand both in words and deeds to be true, respectable and acceptable without compromising on standards (brand’s promise). - Bernard Kelvin Clive
To dream is to be alive. To hope, to be human. -from THE PROMISE - Iimani David
Compromise is a stalling between two fools. - Stephen Fry
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. - Mark Twain
That was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love that does not exist. but darling, You are the only exception - Hayley Williams
Enjoy every bit of your life to the fullest. Your compromises and sacrifices will be rewarded. - Santosh Kalwar
Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for. - Ogwo David Emenike
We work hard for the things we want, we compromise, we amend, we persevere, we stay believing, we show commitment. We strive! Later we will see the results - Tshepang Sharon Koji
Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed. - Michael Bassey Johnson
WHEN SIN HINDERS YOUR WORSHIP.God will never delay His promise.You have delayed Him."..However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:8b - Mac Canoza
It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ. - John Calvin
A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise. - Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort of behavior. Humans had a long, storied history of forcing their way into places where they didn't belong. - Becky Chambers
politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer
far far away, on d moon;a promise was written;seasons will come n go,but i wont change, i will be the same,and I am on the way.But while counting the stars she lost the moon. - Harihar D. Naik
At any moment we can demonstrate our faith by taking action that shows our belief in God's promises! - Alisa Hope Wagner
The only group large enough to handle," the world's biggest, "problems is the network of millions of local churches around the world. We have the widest distribution, largest group of volunteers, local credibility, the promises of God, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the inevitability of history. - Rick Warren
You came to this world with the promise to live an extraordinary life. - Debasish Mridha
There is time to compromise. There is time to absolutely abhor d word. Most times it is the latter. Compromise is mediocrity. Compromise is cheap. - Uneñ Ameji
Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise. - Janet Evanovich
I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI'll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were my only boy forever. - Coco J. Ginger
I didn't want to fight with him. And yet I could not promise him what I most wanted to give - my love, the promise that I would stay with him in the Winter Court, that I would throw caution aside and be with him. - Kailin Gow
It's okay, we can go back from this." It comes out of his mouth so kind - he means it - and it just makes me feel worse. That he can kiss me like this and change everything, but still promise me nothing has to change because I can't promise him anything. - Courtney Summers
The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure of our economy and society prevent these goals from being achieved. - Rebecca Solnit
She lies there in waitAnd feeling so hollow.Can't find love in this place,Left alone with her sorrow.All the promises you madeWhen you stood by her side were so brokenWhen you threw it away - Of Mice & Men
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. - A.A. Milne
a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never be afraid of the PROCESS that will take you to the PROMISE - Joe Joe Dawson
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend. - Quentin Crisp
We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block. - John Kerry
The language of understanding is not the words, but the silence. The language of love is not the promise, but the feelings. - Debasish Mridha
when there is no sound mind in the society people are compromised in their judgement - Sunday Adelaja
Hope is assurance of the promise.. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity. - Debasish Mridha
When you break the promises, you loose the credibility. When you loose the credibility, you loose the trust. So, keep your promises, because trust is the foundation of soulfully inspired life. - Vishwas Chavan
I promised her that I would never kiss and tell, but I have to tell someone about my dreams and fairytales. So I’m telling you that I kissed her. - Delano Johnson
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf. - G. K. Chesterton
Promise is more worthy than Time and Money. - Vijay Dhameliya
A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust;Promiscuities of bed and board and road; The one assured treasureA life, in recollection, truly possessed. - Robert Wells
A day will come when a woman will be elected to the top of the pyramid, to be a prime minister or a president, and the whole world will know her and hear about her. She may be sitting here amongst us. - Her Promised Road
For the life of me I cannot remember, what made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise. For the life of me I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins, we were merely freshmen. - The Verve Pipe
Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance. - Steve Maraboli
All my biggest failures began with the smallest compromises. - Jori Sams
My heart is broken; my spirit’s gone,I broke my lover’s heart, I made promises, I broke them all.The end was near, I’ve crossed to the other side,My heart is broken, my spirit’s gone,I made promises, I broke them all. - Quetzal
I can cross the boundless ocean just to save you, I cannot eat or sleep without you, I can take you on a journey to heaven and show you to the angels. All these are fake and absurd promises; Be sincere, walk up to your lover and say, honestly, darling, i can only do the best i can for you. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Did you see the frightened ones,Did you hear the falling bombs,Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies.Good bye blue skies. - Roger Waters
Master the chaos within yourself and I promise you, you will gain the strength to withstand any storm. - Nikki Rowe
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. - Peter Drucker
Depression is a lying bastard.You'll have better days, I promise you. - Sue Fitzmaurice
After a while you learn the difference between holding a hand and falling in love.. You begin to learn that kisses don't always mean something, Promises can be broken just as quickly as they are made, and goodbyes sometime really are forever! - Atul Purohit
God’s promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine. - David Nicholas
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. - William Shakespeare
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. - George Santayana
In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment. - George W. Bush
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise. - Edward Sellner
Therefore, a search for God's will should begin on your knees. He will meet you there. Remember that Jesus promised, "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you" (Matthew 7:7). - James C. Dobson
The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept. - Sheila Walsh
Some promises are better left unsaid
Excuses are a promise of repetition. - Stefan Molyneux
Never compromise the glorious Gospel. It is the Gospel "from" Christ and not merely a Gospel "about" Christ. Gal 1:6-12 - John Paul Warren
Men love pleasure, but women wish for purposeful promise. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Men promise freedom while establishing laws; God promises laws while establishing freedom. - Criss Jami
Faith in God is a promise that we’re never alone, that there’s a higher power that will look over us in times of despair. If people would just grasp this, even as an idea, they’ll soon find that it’s not just an idea, but the truth to a more meaningful life. - Ron Baratono
When we move about the planet seeing with the eyes of the heart, we connect with humanity on the deepest level possible and remember one of our soul's promises: to bring the wonders of Heaven, which reside in the Sacred Heart, to earth in physical form. - Molly Friedenfeld
Never compromise yourself. You are all you've got. - Janis Joplin
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. - Woodrow Wilson
this is the rough part, okay? so just stay tuned for the good part. i promise it'll come soon. - John Green
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. - Havelock Ellis
Dear Anarcho-Communist,If you and I ever find ourselves in a stateless society, have no fear. Just mention that you are a communist, and I promise I will never try to "oppress" and "exploit" you by offering to trade with you, or by offering to pay you to do work.Sincerely, - Larken Rose
Let us make a choice and a promise to be kind, courteous, loving, and forgiving. - Debasish Mridha
Love without truth and honor is licentious in nature. Love without commitment is promiscuous and fleeting. Love without virtue and understanding is savage and selfish. Love without respect is short-lived. Love without these conditions is without God. - David W. Stevens
I deleted your number. Although I know the tired digits by heart, scout's honor, pinky promise.I am trying to talk myself out of every emotion I'm having, and of course, it is failing to a fault.I'm still sad, I'm still mad, I'm still heartbroken, I miss you. - Elizabeth Brooks
The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby. - Duop Chak Wuol
People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words. - Sanhita Baruah
God performs His promises. - Lailah Gifty Akita
We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time. - Joseph Bottum
Torah is not merely a collection of prohibitions, rigid strictures and boring observances. Rather, it is a narrative of the blessings and promises of God initially offered to one person and family, but through which the whole world will ultimately be blessed. - Walter C. Kaiser Jr.
Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance.
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. - Paul Farmer
Believe in the promise of today, and have hope in the possibilities of tomorrow - Chris Burkmenn
You promised, Seaweed Brain. We would not get separated! Ever again! You’re impossible! Love you too! - Rick Riordan
Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
For every summer & every summer after.Promise your-self to bare a bit more.To take things to a new level.To reinvent. To reflect back.To keep things humble.To tie up loose ends & Let the Sparks Fly... - sincerely jennp
Do not compromise on the quality and your customers will not negotiate on the price. - Amit Kalantri
I would much rather lose people than compromise my beliefs & values to please them. - Trevor Driggers
Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life. - Epictetus
Politicians sre the same all over.They promise to build bridges, even where there are no rivers. - Nikita Khrushev
...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. - Martin Luther King Jr.
I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. - John F. Kennedy
Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise. - Anthony Liccione
Saying of the Prophet.Lies, promises, trustHe is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust. - Idries Shah
Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise. - C.S. Lewis
If true acts of worship must be sincere without expecting anything, it should not need to be able to offer the promise of anything - Handi Priyono
Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon - V.C. Andrews
Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment. - John Piper
Never make a promise which you think is hard to keep. Never make a promise though!! - Anamika Mishra
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
I may not be able to help you as much as I want, but I promise I will help you as much as I can. - Debasish Mridha
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
As prayer without faith is but a beating of the air, so trust without prayer [is] but a presumptuous bravado. He that promises to give, and bids us trust His promises, commands us to pray, and expects obedience to his commands. He will give, but not without our asking. - Thomas Lye
One of my professors in college used to say As the wise man said, Do or do not, there is no try, but the advice columns generally say the opposite. If someone promises to try, and you're happy with that, don't push. It can backfire. You can get yourself in a lot of trouble asking for too much. - Jael McHenry
Have peoples FUNDAMENTAL rights been compromised ?Answers please. - Dr. Chukuma
Have you noticed ... that he actually hadn't made any promises to you? - Janie Chang
Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.
No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again. - Bill Clinton
Oft expectations fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits. - William Shakespeare
There is no compromise when it comes to someones delicate feelings, the only way out is to stop pretending and set yourself free from someones life. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Show me that horizon, promise me a world better than this on the other side of the sun. - Saim .A. Cheeda
Your false promises are dark enough to submerge even the sun. - Jawwad Zafar
Self-betrayal occurs when we do to another what we sense we should not do or don't do what we sense we should. Thus self-betrayal is a sort of moral self-compromise, a violation of our own personal sense of how we ought to be and what we ought to do. - C. Terry Warner
I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble. - Mennonite Proverb
I will never give up on what I love. I will never back down. I will never let go of anything that is important to me. I will hold my course steady and my God will help me see it through. This is my promise, my anthem and my path. This is my future and I own it. - Shannon L. Alder
The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over. - Gordon Ramsay
Underpromise; overdeliver. - Tom Peters
Clotilda: ....don’t take him for granted. No day is promised us with the ones we love.... - Joyce, T.S.
To all who struggle with depression or suicidal thoughts: you are not alone. we are all on this journey together. I promise you that there is hope. Let us reach out to one another and walk together in the sunlight. - Seth Adam Smith
It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. - Evelyn Waugh
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery. - Betty Friedan
A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. - Junot Diaz
Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past. - Shannon L. Alder
Where do dreams come from?...they slink out of books, they lurk in the stacks of libraries. Out of pages turned they rise like the scent of peonies and infect the brain with their promises. - Marge Piercy
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. - Francis Marion
But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side. - Morley Safer
Money can't buy true love. Those promises. A real person who loves you, loves you from the heart. - Auliq Ice
One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation - Sunday Adelaja
Promises are priceless, and a kiss is a kind of promise, too. - Rick Yancey
Never promise more than you can perform. - Publilius Syrus
Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments. - Leonardo da Vinci
To promise is to grant the future, it's a lie waiting to happen - A.M.M Alusi
Don’t underestimate your tears. They have the power to strengthen your commitment to your life’s purpose and to direct you towards your goal. So, when you cry because of the people who mock or taunt you, be positive and make promises with yourself that you will prove them wrong. - Saad Salman
Life makes two promises, one, it promises to be good, and two, it promises to be bad. Cherish the good and be strong during the bad. - Meena Sarine
Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing, but a compromise- that which is common to you, me, and everybody. - Thomas Hulme
If a father does not altogether embrace a life of uncompromised sacrifice as the core of all principles by which he nurtures his children, he is a father by birth only and no power on earth can ever or will ever make that sufficient. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness. - Christina Hoff Sommers
Faithfulness is my promise to love you forever - S.K Logsdon
Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.
Nothing in life is promised except death. - Kanye West
I promise you that I will steal your heart and keep it in the prison of my love forever. - Debasish Mridha
He's the kind of guy who might not have an expiration date. Who I could fall for so completely that I might as well put my heart in a blender right now because it would hurt less. Who I could want with the kind of passion that makes you forget important things like the promises you make to yourself. - Rachael Allen
He got off on Lincoln and slavery and dared any man there to deny that Lincoln and the negro and Moses and the children of Israel were the same, and that the Red Sea was just the blood that had to be spilled in order that the black race might cross into the Promised Land. - William Faulkner
Magnificent promises are always to be suspected. - Theodore Parker
We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised. - David Assael
On Easter day let us promise to resurrect, transcend, and transform our conscience for the happiness of mankind. - Debasish Mridha
When you are at the end of the road, turn around and take another road. I promise it will be less painful. - Debasish Mridha
It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising. - Cyril Connolly
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart. - Marion Wink
If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises". - Ronald Reagan
In between saying something and achieving it, there is some pothole to fill; that’s doing it. Goals are pursued with the word GO and visions with the word VENTURE. You can’t be living always in the promise of the cloud; it must rain now! - Israelmore Ayivor
The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise. - Mia Love
If you do whatever it takes to accomplish your goals to live the life you desire, It will be worth it. I promise! But if you find some excuse to justify quitting your journey, you will regret it. This is also a promise!" -gbb - Glenn Brandon Burke
The magnitude of any one day is compromised by its passing quickly into the next, a mere moment in time which soon fades into the collective memory of our past. - Timothy W. Tron
God is on top of His own league and he doesn't need anyone's vote to fulfill His promises. - Euginia Herlihy
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage. - Herman Melville
When you forget who you are and whose you are, you start to compromise. - Kris Vallotton
I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of. - Anne Brontë
Logan was her entire world and she was his. She could taste the raw honey and bits of bees still on his tongue. She enjoyed the sweet flavor and kept her promise of kissing him even though he was a bug-eating bear. - Jess Hayek
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
And all Negroes at some period of their lives there is that yearning for a sense of group unity that is the yearning of men for a flag: for a unity that cannot be compromised, that cannot be bought; that is conscious of itself, of its strength, that is militant. - Ralph Ellison
Create a massive drawing of what God has promised you. - Euginia Herlihy
Cares are what we make them. Cares are what make us. - from THE PROMISE - Iimani David
Marketing's illusive promise is that this one product will change your life, make you feel more sexy, satisfy all your heart's desires. - L.G. Durand
Nothing is lost that cannot be refound" she says in a voice infused with otherworldly authority "this is the Dark Goddess's promise to guide you back to your deepest self and soul. If you choose this Sarah, so will it be. - Karen Clark
Promise me no promises, So will I not promise you: Keep we both our liberties, Never false and never true: Let us hold the die uncast, Free to come as free to go: For I cannot know your past, And of mine what can you know? - Christina Rossetti
Happiness is not something to be pursued, it is something met, an encounter. Most encounters, however, have a sequel; this is their promise. The encounter with happiness has no sequel. All is there instantly. Happiness is what pierces grief. - John Berger
I have survived my first day of chemo and I like this feeling of survival. It’s alive and it’s right and it’s what I will make sure I feel every day for the rest of the life I have left. I make a promise to myself: While I’m dying, I will be completely fucking alive. - Glenn Rockowitz
No terms, no conditions, no promises, no commitment, and no institution—but only another example of what happens when law and politics attempt to regulate a religious institution. - H. Kirk Rainer
One of the main reasons and excuses behind every religious failure is a FALSE PROMISE. - M.F. Moonzajer
I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed. - Rosie O'Donnell
I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday. - Libba Bray
Compromise where you can. Where you can't, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move, it is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye, and say 'No, you move'. - Christopher Markus
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles. - Charles Sumner
It's so easy for some people to get naked. They think they're so promiscuous and avant-garde and rebellious... but year-round their souls are covered in winter clothing! My soul is promiscuous, now how's that for being a rebel without a cause? They are amateurs. - C. JoyBell C.
Perspective-changing events can have many parts. One part can be a tense, laughter-filled promise. Another part can have no laughter at all. - Andrea Goeglein
It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman. - Alexandre Dumas
...[D]espite the concoction's disgusting lecture, it's cleared every blemish from my face, as promised. I am a Buzzard-created beauty, head to toe. - Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War
God never calls His people to accomplish anything without promising to supply their every need. - Charles R. Swindoll
7 Principles of a Happy MarriageAlways listenBe thereCompromise is necessaryBuild up trustA kiss before sleep, a kiss after wakingNever keep scoreDo things together - Steven Aitchison
He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend. - George Shelley
Although I am smiling and I promise I will be. - Naresh Sharma
All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter. - Edmund Burke
A secret to your progress will be a strong belief in your own abilities. People will try to hold you back. Some will even "try" to close doors but if you believe in your very own abilities, I promise you will do all that they didn't want for you and more. - Troy Gathers
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. - Bill Cosby
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing. - George Bernard Shaw
My kiss is my promise written in my heart with color of your love. - Debasish Mridha
Her legacy was not--would not be--this disease. Phyllis Marie Unold Avery told us stories...It is my promise to her that for as long as I am able, I will recognize, restory, and remember. - Nancy A. Dafoe
It is time for us to move on to our promised land!!! It’s time to begin to believe that with God on our side we can build a prosperous nation and continent - Sunday Adelaja
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard M. Baruch
Quality is not for compromise. - Dee Dee Artner
Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms. - Nora Roberts
Tomorrow, you promise yourself, things will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. And you disappoint yourself again and again. - James T. McCay
Consumers today have become a cynical mob of buyers who believe the reviews and ratings of complete strangers much more readily than your brand's promises and distinctions. - David Brier
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. - Ayn Rand
God promised you to give you dreams and visions, see Him as your great dream/vision giver. - Euginia Herlihy
Tomorrow you promise yourself will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. - James T. McCay
How like God's love yours has been to me- so wise, so generous, and so unsparing!" exclaimed Pancratius. "Promise me one thing more- that is, that you will stay near to me to the end, and carry my last legacy to my mother. - Cardinal Wiseman
We used to be best friends but the first time I saw you, my heart beats fast like my happiness can never be surpassed. I don’t know why but if I lost you promise I will always cry. - Berry Quotes
Never let your uniqueness be compromised - Benny Bellamacina
Every time you give up on your dreams, you compromise the size and magnitude of what God has called you to do. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Life is like Mother Nature - unpredictable. Friends /relatives who promise to help, will avoid you when you need them. Then, you struggle to get through and suddenly, some stranger walks in offering you the help you needed. The hope, the betrayal and the miracle...all are just part of our life... - Sandhya Jane
Promises hold no real value, What matters the most is not to loose yourself while fulfilling promises for others. - Alamvusha
To tell the truth, my dear count, I must own that of all nauseating human emanations, literature is one of those which disgust me most. I can see nothing in it but compromise and flattery. And I go so far as to doubt whether it can be anything else. - André Gide
Don't compromise your integrity; whatever you gain won't be worth as much as what you lose. - Aaron Dennis
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. - Thomas Fuller
SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance. - Ambrose Bierce
Don't let the lies of yesterday hamper the promises of tomorrow - Ricky Yousuf
If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one. - George Gaylord Simpson
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. - Friedrich Nietzsche
If the only tool in Willem's arsenal was a silent supplication to an absent almighty, then I might as well be sitting next to a raving radical ready to die for the promise of seventy-two virgins and a couple of camels. - Lisa C. Temple
Why this fuss about understanding women?! It's so simple. All we want is everything, no compromises. - Shweta Bhatnagar
Anybody who accepts mediocrity - in school, on the job, in life - is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.
To get a man's attention, just stand in front of the TV and don't move. He'll talk to you. I promise.
Everything opens a new door, a book opens a new door, facts open a new door. So choose your favourite thing and I promise it will open a door. - Deyth Banger
And now she must continue the day as if the strange dream hadn’t picked up her life and shaken it upside down like a snow globe, dislodging everything that wasn’t glued down."The Dream Jumper's Promise - Kim Hornsby
God has a plan for you (Jer. 29:11) and you will make it through this time of testing. Keep on believing and moving forward and you will see Him working out the details. God is never early or late but His timing is always perfect. You will see, I promise. - Tamara L. Chilver
Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence. - Michael Bassey Johnson
A clarion call to the 7000 remnants who are yet to bow their knees to Baal, to arise and come out of the wilderness to take charge of the guard that would lead their Nations and church to the promise land - Sunday Adelaja
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life. - Robert Byrne
At times,trust is bound to be broken,promises are bound not to be kept,hearts are bound to be hurt,mistakes are bound to be make.You are also bound to meet a person at their worst in order for you to confirm that you want to be part of their lives. - Nomthandazo Tsembeni
Je reste optimiste tout en me préparant au pire, maman, ça te semble bien comme compromis ? - Alice Kuipers
FUCK UNITY! FUCK CONSENSUS! There was no unity or consensus during the American Revolution. We had principled leadership from a small, vocal, minority that refused to compromise on the issue of individual liberty. - A.E. Samaan
Love isn't something to be given on whim, or shelved when it isn't convenient. Love is gift, a promise, and a belief in another person. If you treat it as such, it will fulfill you always - Brian MacLearn
Hope knows no fear.Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss.Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise. - Sri Chinmoy
The promise of a hopeful future is motivation for the pursuit of my dreams. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. - Robert Fritz
Don`t complain, Don`t compromise. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all. - Jack Kerouac
A Christian’s hope is not a possibility but a promise in Jesus. - Jim George
If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season. - Shana Chartier
A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile - Lytton Strachey
For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside. - Jonathan Lethem
I am an atheist but I promise whenever there is complete freedom of religion I would worship you as my private and individual God. - M.F. Moonzajer
Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map. - Sarah Addison Allen
All spheres of life in society are mission fields. They are the Promised Land where the Lordwill lead us to. - Sunday Adelaja
If you adjust first time, compromise second time, failure is what you will get third time. - Amit Kalantri
This Bible of Mine? It is the breath of God spoken into my weary bones. It is the armor I need to walk the roads He has chosen for me, and it's the confirmation of promises that withstand the test of hours and adversity. It's a love letter, and it has my name on it. It has your name on it. - Angie Smith
Blue skies or dark night, one truth still holds: God has you. And this is the promise He has made to you: He will never let you go. - Angela Thomas
Alas! Charles made the promise glibly, and forgot all about it. - Whipplesnaith
Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other. - Nicholas Sparks
Never compromise your perceptions and truth to validate the perceptions of others. - Debasish Mridha
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.
Choose to believe the promise of God over the obstacles of man. - Chris Burkmenn
They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and dominate your mind, but its better to put them bulshit people at arms length rather than falling into the arms of infidelity. - Michael Bassey Johnson
A strong work ethic is a form of accountability, because it involves keeping a promise to one's employer. It is not the same thing as workaholism. - Bruce Weinstein
Time, energy and money. These should never be compromised. - Dee Dee Artner
The sure path to tomorrow was plotted in a manger and paved on a cross. And although this sturdy byway is mine for the taking, I have incessantly chosen lesser paths. And maybe it is time to realize that Christmas is a promise that I can walk through the world and never get lost in the woods. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness. - Kate DiCamillo
Since our yesterdays are gone and our tomorrows are never promised, TODAY I want to thank all my amazing friends and family for being in my life. - Steven Aitchison
Do not make promises when you are happy, either way never make decisions when you are angry. Stay calm. - David Esabwa
And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions? - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Don't compromise yourself, you are all you've got. - Janis Joplin
God is trustworthy—He always keeps His promises. - Jim George
Foremost, step one could take is avoiding the cheap behaviour of compromising principles with decorated lies which assails the moral power of common sense. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa
Why would we want fame, when God promises us glory? Why would we be seeking the wealth of the world when the wealth of heaven is ours? Why would we run for a crown that will perish with time, when we're called to win a crown that is imperishable? - Paul David Washer
You must have your own world within the world and you must never compromise on the matters of giving up your own world for any reason whatsoever! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Real integrity comes from knowing oneself and believing in truth, without compromise, and no matter how challenging. Integrity is a beautiful thing. - Sameh Elsayed
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it. - Craig Raine
We accept the cures, with the promise of future struggles, in defiance of death. - Benjamin Rubenstein
And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved. - Nikki Rowe
I know we are supposed to welcome anyone who vows to protect the kingdom, but really, anyone will do anything for a copper these days, and where pride and promises are saleable, expendable men come very cheap indeed. - Michelle Franklin
Love is not about making promises but it is about believing - Anamika Mishra
You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay away from such people or simply don't fall for their promises. - K. Hari Kumar
God Provides by divine Power through knowledge of His Promises so that we Participate in divine nature in godliness. - Corey M.K. Hughes
You just wait.Soon, lovers all over the worldwill be reciting poems dedicated to you.This is my promise. - Kamand Kojouri
Every time we compromise, push the limits, or forego Biblical boundaries, we cheat on God…we hurt Him. - Jayce O'Neal
Great imaginations are the breeding ground for great accomplishments!Great imaginations are like horses, they need guidance and proper nurturing, only then do they offer the world of adventure they promise. - Marilynn Dawson
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. - François de La Rochefoucauld
No human should mislead another by promising them something they know to be untrue. - Santosh Kalwar
The easiest thing for a person is to accept everything as it is and adjust with everyone in the surroundings by sacrificing or compromising originality, but it's also the worst thing if he proclaims that he has changed himself. - Testy McTesterson
God never said that we wouldn’t have unfair situations, that we wouldn’t experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen. - Joel Osteen
Do not turn me intorestless watersif you cannot promiseto be my stream. - Sanober Khan
The promise of a dreamer’s future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than their current level of maturity. - Wayne Cordeiro
Here today, may be gone tomorrow! Never take anyone or nothing for granted! Be sure to count your blessing daily because tomorrow isn't promised. - Surgeo Bell
Bravery is looking into her eyes without shivering and compromising. - M.F. Moonzajer
No, I do not want to be loved unconditionally. I want to be shown when I am treating you less than you deserve. I want you to leave if I ever start making you promises I do not see through. Love me for my flaws, yes, but don’t you dare ever allow them to hurt you. - Beau Taplin
He turned to me. Call me later?Yes.Promise?I promise, I said.And then he leaned down and kissed me. And this time it wasn’t Romeo kissing Juliet. It was Quinn kissing Delia. And that was even better. - Jennifer Sturman
But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men. - Gustave Flaubert
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
Autumn is my favourite season of all. It is a transitory period that allows the earth to rest before it sees the harshness of winter and hears the promise of spring. - Kamand Kojouri
Live for today with love and kindness. Live profoundly for tomorrow is promised to no one. - Debasish Mridha
A promise is just an empty shell filled with words, and words are weightless. - Lik Hock Yap Ivan
The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir. - David Foster Wallace
Any of the girl never ever commit when her intention is to cheat You. So, I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect - Anuj Kr. Thakur
In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce. - Marcella Hazan
It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other. - Sara Sheridan
Results speak for themselves while intentions often fall short of promises. - Mika Lo, wHow contributor
Hope doesn't disappoint. God is FAITHFUL to His promises. Being delayed is a part of God's plan for our lives. So don't lose hope everything will come forth at the appointed time. - Prophetess Dina Rolle
In the middle of the mayhem, you came and sang a song of melancholy. You promised a wildfire, but instead choked the light that was struggling hard for survival. Eventually when all the light went off. You left, complaining about the darkness. - Akshay Vasu
Faith looks to God, hopes in God, and believes in His promises, regardless of our actual circumstances. - Wendy Blight
We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise. - Raquel Welch
People lie. Promises are broken. A - Rick Riordan
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard
No matter how long we wait, God’s promise shall be fulfilled. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The promises of God hold up long after the promises of the world have blown up. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Find something you love and go for it with all your heart. No excuses, no plan B. Never settle for anything less than you know you can do.It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it. - Charlotte Eriksson
Advertisement shouldn’t look like information, it should look like a promise. - Amit Kalantri
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