#promise

One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#again #back #day #give #give me

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#day #every #every day #excellent #give

I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me. ↗

— Emily VanCamp

#excited #found #i #me #myself

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#conception #consciously #democratic #economic #economic prosperity

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#american life #artful #conceived #effect #fulfillment

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. ↗

— Ray Davies

#corruption #crooked #hearing #keep #know

I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#charming #even #frog #frogs #i

We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for! ↗

— Richard Trumka

#building #case #develop #dime #electoral

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

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

— William Weld

#government #liberals #often #problems #promise