Promise Quotes - Page 54

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression.

I don't want to make compromises. I want my little silly jokes to be told with the correct punch line, and I'm satisfied trading off the immediacy to fulfill the detailed work of the artistic end of things.

Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.

With the advance of refrigeration, I hope that along with the frozen foods someday we will have frozen conversation. A person will be able to keep a frozen promise indefinitely.

In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation implied in every bond issue is a false promise.

Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.

You know how I feel about you, Bluefur. I'd do my best to make you happy, I promise. And I'll love your kits as though they were my own.

Every principle has a promise.

A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?

Dogs don't mind being photographed in compromising situations.

Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.

We regard an action of Contract as an action to prevent or compensate for a breach of a promise; an action of Tort as an action to to punish or compensate for a wrong, such as assault or defamation, which has not any necessary connection with a promise.

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.

The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as an independent force is covered by the technological bluff, which refers it to the agenda of the future and disguises the deficiencies of the present.

It stank pretty bad, of course: manure was caked all over the wagon. But we were free. Right then I was elated with a sense of how faithful God is to his promises; I was free, and I was smiling joyfully on a manure wagon. As we ambled along, I laughed to myself when I thought of God's sense of humor in delivering us that way. Even today, the smell of manure reminds me of freedom.

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

The left promises abortion rights and cradle to the grave protection, so the trick is to make it to the cradle.

You cannot make promises because you never know what your next project will be.

There is a creative solution to every problem. Every possibility holds the promise of abundance.

Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.