#promised

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#bet #compromised #does #entertainment #entertainment industry

When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#believing #comment #constrained #duties #exposed

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

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#been #compromised #diplomatic #initiatives #interested

But the people of Arizona, the people of America, have been promised that our borders would be secured for years and years and years, with it not happening. And I don't believe the people of America, certainly not the people of Arizona, are ready to discuss anything other at this point in time other than securing our borders. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#anything #arizona #been #believe #borders

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

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#any #apologize #better #family #first

The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#already #clear #congress #dismantled #loud

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

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#computer #every #i #laptop #massage