#promise

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#every #extraordinary #hope #human #human life

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on. ↗

— Bernard De Voto

#been #day #dungeon #even #found

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#chamber #compromise #fall #here #i

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#break #commitments #keep #losers #make

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#anyone #civilized #creed #curious #every

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. ↗

— Simone Weil

#anything #beauty #gives #never #promises

Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government. ↗

— William Weld

#government #liberals #often #problems #promise

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. ↗

— Mae West

#performance #pounds #promises #worth

Nothing in life is promised except death. ↗

— Kanye West

#except #life #nothing #promised

The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done. ↗

— Charles Williams

#against #back #church #done #feel