There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected that's when he doesn't forget them.
I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye I will never forget - not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you smile at me and make it true.
People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.
Science reckons many prophets but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
That's what so sad about a lot of modern music in my opinion so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.
Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir I'm not E.N. but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity part of his nation part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.
Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights or are used as an excuse for others to do so.
No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.
I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature the respect of colleagues maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.
In a relationship when does the art of compromise become compromising?
You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have but on the negative side financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.
In politics sometimes you have to lie or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.