#promised

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#bob #brother #dad #go #government

We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters. ↗

— Steven Levy

#looking #more #more and more #nation #philosophers

I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

#good #good food #her #history #i

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#dozen #editor #editors #essay #geographic

We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called. ↗

— Adrian Smith

#called #career #certain #compromised #corporate

A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them. ↗

— Freddy Adu

#disappeared #great #hyped #i #just

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#cia #compromised #handed #i #many

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. ↗

— James Buchan

#accounts #before #brown #came #cash

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. ↗

— James Buchan

#crown #drama #earned #frets #his

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#believe #better #chance #compromised #dangerously