#promised

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. ↗

— Frank Stella

#aim #art #compromised #create #decoration

I never promised you a rose garden. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#i #never #promised #rose #you

Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out. ↗

— Dashiell Hammett

#court #find #had #hear #justice

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

You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope! ↗

— Camille Claudel

#back #came #care #even #fun

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

— Bob Ehrlich

#good #good food #her #history #i

Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society. ↗

— Carlos Salinas de Gortari

#been #better #big #bureaucracies #centralization

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#anywhere #awful #compromised #fame #go

California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#country #every #land #like #palestine

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