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You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.
Fred Thompson
You
Promises
Example
Setting
Ourselves
Promise
Protecting
Known
Prior
Expense
Substitute
After
When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
Gary Hamel
Truth
Trust
Politician
Bends
Promise
Beating
Takes
Breaks
CEO
The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.
Gary Wolf
Great
World
Internet
Promise
Make
Accessible
Information
Useful
Universally
If you are writing a thriller with violence in it, the ending must be violent. You are delivering a promise to your reader.
Gayle Lynds
You
Writing
Ending
Promise
Must
Thriller
Delivering
Reader
Your
Violence
Violent
I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.
Gene Simmons
Love
Day
You
Woman
Heart
Lie
Will
All My Heart
Tell
Promise
Only
Until
She
Up
Friends
Die
Front
Refuse
Rabbi
Stand
Stand Up
Who
Ever
I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Myself
Writing
Down
Promise
About
Prospects
Devoted
Felt
Without
Were
Years
Times
Quite
Representation
Anything
Promise is most given when the least is said.
George Chapman
Promise
Given
Most
Said
Least
I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.
George McGovern
Believe
Presidency
Diminishing
Promise
Seek
Longer
Accept
Because
American
Deeply
Trump has seized the Republican nomination by finding scapegoats for the economic hardships and disintegrating lives of working-class whites while giving these voters a reassuring but false promise of their restoration to the center of American life.
George Packer
Life
Hardships
Giving
Promise
Finding
Restoration
Economic
Seized
Voters
Nomination
False
Trump
American
Center
While
Republican
American Life
Whites
Working-Class
Reassuring
Lives
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
Gilbert Highet
Politics
Vote
Those
Promise
Support
Endure
Public
Persuading
I want to be able to look my daughter's teacher in the eye and say, 'Your pension will be there.' I need to know that her pension will match up with a promise we can keep.
Gina Raimondo
Teacher
Will
Daughter
Say
Eye
Promise
Pension
Able
Know
Look
Match
Up
Want
Your
Keep
Her
Need
By and large, our political system has betrayed its promise to each new generation of Filipinos, not a few of whom are voting with their feet, going abroad and leaving that system behind.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Generation
Voting
Political
Few
Our
System
Promise
Betrayed
Abroad
New
Feet
New Generation
Leaving
Political System
Going
Behind
Large
Each
Whom
The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.
Gordon Smith
Opportunity
Achieve
Every
Our
Way
Ensure
Promise
Give
Only
Potential
Disabilities
Students
Schools
Dollars
Provide
Them
Full
Full Potential
Help
Every Opportunity
Need
All I can promise is I'll do my very best. I'll try as hard as I can.
Graham Potter
Best
Try
Promise
Very
Hard
America is exceptional, it is asserted, because, with the exception of the abolition of slavery, it has been able to extend the promise of liberal reform mostly peacefully, through its democratic institutions.
Greg Grandin
Liberal
Has-Been
Promise
Able
Abolition
Exception
Through
Exceptional
Institutions
Democratic
Mostly
Because
Been
Reform
America
Asserted
Peacefully
Extend
Slavery
I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Whenever I read those words, I'm hooked. The thought of a transformation - any kind of transformation - thrills me. And that's the promise of habits.
Gretchen Rubin
Me
Words
Thought
Before
Transformation
Books
Those
Hooked
Kind
Promise
TV
TV Shows
Magazines
Thrills
Habits
Read
Always
Any
Whenever
Stories
After
Loved
Shows
We need a new model of social protection. Let us accept that jobs are not the magic solution - and that in a globalised market, job guarantees are a false promise. Let us accept flexible labour, too. But in return, let us have a society in which everybody has a right to basic security and a more equal access to other insurance-based schemes.
Guy Standing
Protection
Job
Society
Too
Other
Everybody
Market
Jobs
Promise
Security
Solution
Magic
More
Schemes
New
Equal
Return
Accept
Access
False
Model
Labour
Which
Social
Us
Flexible
Let Us
Right
Basic
Need
Guarantees
President Obama ran a campaign in 2008 that was entirely expected from a non-incumbent. You promise, and you imply that if you elect me, everything good is going to happen.
H. W. Brands
Good
Me
You
President
President Obama
Ran
Everything
Promise
Obama
Entirely
Imply
Campaign
Expected
Going
Happen
Elect
When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
Haile Gebrselassie
You
Promise
Must
Something
Fulfill
You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
Haile Gebrselassie
Me
You
Promise
Something
Deliver
Disappear
Know
Want
Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.
Hank Johnson
Government
Generation
Spending
Promise
Security
Another
Government Spending
Just
Social
Social Security
Program
One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.
Hedy Lamarr
Hope
Bible
People
Rose
Favorite
Out
Favorite People
Promise
More
Gypsy
Bears
He
She
Lee
Lot
Gets
Who
The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.
Henry Lawson
Future
History
Country
State
Despite
Characteristics
Promise
Born
More
Advance
Singularity
Than
Taught
Children
Interest
Meanest
Bred
Europe
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
Herbert Croly
Loyalty
Patriotism
Projection
National
Other
Promise
Higher
Ideal
Tradition
Hand
Historical
Precedent
American
Imaginative
To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.
Herbert Croly
Life
Prosperity
Opportunity
Alien
Independence
Immigrant
Promise
Economic
Economic Independence
Advantages
Been
Offered
America
American
Which
Converted
American Life
Who
European
Largely
In the 1960s, if you introduced a new product to America, 90% of the people who viewed it for the first time believed in the corporate promise. Then 40 years later if you performed the same exercise, less than 10% of the public believed it was true. The fracturing of trust is based on the fact that the consumer has been let down.
Howard Schultz
Time
You
Trust
People
First
Down
Corporate
Later
Has-Been
Promise
Introduced
Fact
Consumer
True
Performed
New
Exercise
First Time
Been
Years
Than
America
Same
Public
Then
Product
Viewed
Less
Who
Let Down
Believed
Based
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