#promise

It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group. ↗

— Charles Edison

#any #elect #elected #governor #group

The problem, gentlemen, is that Obama is right: The promise of upward mobility is dying in America, and no amount of political demagoguery will fix it. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#amount #demagoguery #dying #fix #gentlemen

In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#forgive #him #likely #made #president

At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#both #community #deficit #his #honors

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#nothing #poor #promise

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#approaching #arriving #departing #ever #farther

I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#go #i #myself #play #promise

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. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#colleagues #culture #even #fame #fulfilled

Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the benefits they were promised, and they should realize that, were it not for these veterans, there would be nothing to hand out. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#benefits #comes #congress #hand #like

We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good. ↗

— James Laughlin

#good #great #hope #important #into