#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

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

Tomorrow is not promised to any of us. ↗

— Kirby Puckett

#promised #tomorrow #us

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#compromised #integrity #refusal #tests #truest

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. ↗

— Steve Allen

#bank #businessmen #checks #compromised #crooked

All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer. ↗

— James W. Black

#answer #any #could #develop #ever

Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away. ↗

— Bob Graham

#away #being #compromised #equipment #franks

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