#promised

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#easier #more #overstated #people #promised

President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#family #heal #help #obama #oceans

I promised to always bring up a glass of water to her before we go to bed, and she promised to never let me dress myself. ↗

— Fred Savage

#bed #before #bring #dress #glass

I never promised you a rose garden. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#i #never #promised #rose #you

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

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

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it. ↗

— Red Cloud

#i can #kept #land #made #many

We played hard and we partied hard. I'm not ashamed of that. I was no angel - I did some things I shouldn't have done, lived a lifestyle I shouldn't have lived. I had a blast at times; other times, I probably compromised my job, my duty to do my job, to be ready as a professional. ↗

— David Cone

#ashamed #blast #compromised #did #done