#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 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

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

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

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

— Aldrich Ames

#cia #compromised #handed #i #many

Well, we promised our fans that we'd put out records faster, and that's what we're doing. We figured out a way to condense our cycle, so to speak, by... continuing to write, trying to keep the creative ball rolling as often as possible. ↗

— Chester Bennington

#condense #continuing #creative #cycle #doing

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