“...International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration...The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.” CountryNationsGrowsResponsibilityStudyCitizensPromiseInternationalTreasurePresidentialCollaborationStudy Abroad Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“The promise of learning is a delusion.... Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, that the learning process is extended in this way, so that from this standpoint none of us ever graduates from college, for time is an emulsion, and probably thinking not to grow up is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate.” ThinkingWayKindGrowsProcessGrowing UpCollegeTomorrowPromiseRight NowRateMaturityDelusionGraduatesStandpointLearning Process Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow.” SpiritualMotivationFoundGrowsGrowthImaginationDoubtPromiseEgoProfoundIdeologyCertaintyExpansionTruismNew KnowledgeDispelling Author:James Hollis
“An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words, fulsome promises. We wind up married, but to whom, to what? We cannot always predict with certainty the future leader from the winning candidate. Some men grow in the job; others are diminished by its demands and its grandeur.” MenEndsJobsPoliticsWinningGrowsLeaderWindPromiseDemandMarriedMarkPaidElectionAffairCertaintyCandidatesSeductionGrandeurFuture LeadersPretty Words Author:Anna Quindlen
“Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping.” PeopleHeartLyingGrowsLeaderIntegrityPromiseTelling The TruthTranslateFidelityOrganizationalLies TruthPersonal Integrity Book:Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community Source: Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community
“I do think it's good to remember that childish things are made for children, and that, however pleasantly lurid the promise of a return to the clarity of childhood may be, an infatuation with the childish reveals only that one has failed to grow past it.” ThinkingMayChildrenMadePastRememberGrowsChildhoodReturnPromiseClarityInfatuationChildish Things Author:Lauren Faust
“The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.” PeopleEnoughStoriesGovernmentJobsOrderGrowsSimpleCitiesPlansPromiseTaxesCapitalismIncreaseCreatorSpendingCampaignsIncomeEmploymentInequalityGenerousRepeatsVotingDetroitBankruptcyBoostPensionGovernment SpendingIncome InequalityJob CreatorsPension Plans Author:Ben Shapiro
“Be kind. Always. Give love freely and never wait for it to come back. If it breathes, grows, or has even a single cell bouncing around inside it, love it, too. Each and every thing deserves and has earned more respect than it's given so start the trend and I promise, promise that you will feel part of it all when you hold life in your hands.” IfsGivingFeelsKindHandsMotivationalGivenGrowsWaitingPromiseDeserveBreatheCellsBe KindTrendsI Promise Author:Tyler Knott Gregson
“If you're interested in a book that will steadily grow and sell for a very long time, I promise you I will give you that.” IfsGivingLongBookGrowsPromiseLong TimeSellsI Promise Author:Simon Sinek
“A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree.” SoulGrowsTreeChildhoodBrokenReturnPromiseFilledGenuineThreadRuinedBudSpringtimeNew HopeThreads Of Life Book:Beneath the Wheel: A Novel Source: Beneath the Wheel: A Novel
“No offense, but I’m getting stir-crazy. Can we please go downstairs and hang in the bar or do anything that keeps me from sitting here bored out of my mind while the three of you watch me grow eyebrow hair? I mean really, I am fine. I’m not going to spontaneously combust or do anything else freaky. Promise. (Tory)” MindMeanThreeGrowsWatchesCrazyHairFinePleasePromiseSittingBarsBoredOffenseEyebrowsOf My MindWatch MeFreakyStir Crazy Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“the rain is coming. little sister, the night broke. the thunder cracked my brain finally. the rain is coming, i promise you. i didn’t mean to but your tears will bring life back. purple flowers grow, the colour blood looks in the veins. they’ll sprout out of my chest. i promise you they’ll crack the ground, grow over the freeways, down the slopes to the sea. i’ll be in their faces. i’ll be in the waves, coming down from the sky. i’ll be inside the one who holds you. and then i won’t be.” LooksMeanLittlesFacesNightGrowsBrainBloodSeaSkyTearsFlowerPromiseRainWaveBrokeColourCracksChestsVeinsThunderPurpleI PromiseCrackedSlopesSproutsFreewaysLittle Sister Author:Francesca Lia Block