#promise

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right. ↗

— Mike Singletary

#begins #believes #compromise #i #i think

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#made #promises

Sometimes life is so complicated to keep promises. ↗

— Lee Monroe

#life

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#compromises #i #ready #work

I never promised you a rose garden. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#i #never #promised #rose #you

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ↗

— Bliss Carman

#cease #compromises #could #fact #facts

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made. ↗

— Amy Vanderbilt

#compromises #discarded #etiquette #field #find

But I want to be near you always," he reminded her. "But you'll lose everyone else, and..." "I want forever with you." Seth lifted her chin so he was able to look directly into her eyes. "The rest will fall into place if I can be with you. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#forever #love #promise #seth #love

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen. ↗

— Bill Owens

#compromise #get #i #me #out

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state. ↗

— Amos Oz

#both #both sides #burned #coexist #compromise