Promise Quotes - Page 37

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

How troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us forth to keep or break Our promises to pay. How troublesome is day!

Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.

Walking this road without you to remake forgotten promises

Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.

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.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations.

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition, is uncreated simply begs the question. Any being capable of creating a complex world promises to be very complex himself. As the biologist Richard Dawkins has observed repeatedly, the only natural process we know of that could produce a being capable of designing things is evolution.

Your promise means more than the words you use to give it.

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

Don't compromise your heart for something crass.

According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires-it is, rather, liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self.

Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

All promise outruns performance.

Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.

We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness. We [need] to transform our minds and actions for the sake of other people and for the future of the world.