#promised

There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in. ↗

— Mariano Rajoy

#before #come #done #miracles #never

Fifteen years ago, France was the promised land of cooking. So I looked at a map, found five restaurants and faxed them to ask for a job. Within five minutes, I got a reply from the then three- star Le Jardin des Sens in Montpellier. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

#ask #cooking #des #fifteen #five

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#been #before #born #child #delivered

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#nor #promised #reason #received #rhyme

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan. ↗

— Jim Talent

#act #afghanistan #allies #circle #commander

While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk. ↗

— Wendell Johnson

#how #into #land #lead #moses

In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day. ↗

— Travis Barker

#day #eat #ever #every #every day

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#building #finance #iraqis #matter #mission

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