#vowed

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#change #closed #disingenuous #doors #either

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. ↗

— Elihu Root

#avowed #desires #forth #ground #nation

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#compares #diary #every #every man #his

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#flattery #love #secret-love #sense #unavowed-love

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#became #i #job #know #president

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall. ↗

— George Weinberg

#being #heterosexual #i #more #proud

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget. ↗

— Matt Groening

#grown-ups #i #kid #like #most

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#declared #feared #hatreds #more #openly

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. ↗

— Robert Crumb

#cartoonist #famous #felt #get #i

When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands. ↗

— Jennie Garth

#due #every #family #father #genetics