One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out.
I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.
For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
I must demonstrate I'm closer to people - a simpler, calmer presence, yet someone who can also make decisions and obtain promised results.
Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.
While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
You're never promised your next breath.
When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents.
The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country.
I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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.
A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.
By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.
You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.
There's not one person in this state who believes they are going to have a job in my administration... There's not one person who I've promised anything to.
On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
I've been on a lot of film sets, and I've always promised myself I wouldn't create a set where people dread coming to work.
Tomorrow is not promised to any of us.
The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.
It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.
I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on.
I couldn't follow the events of September 11 because I was proofreading a novel I'd just completed - on Islam and its quarrel with the West - that I'd promised, six months earlier, to deliver to my editor on September 12, 2001.
We have promised to do better, and no Republican concern should ever be enough to filibuster our own bill.
I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very emotional scene in the church. He's just a wonderful acting partner. You feel very safe with him.
'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it's a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.
I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.
We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.
With this album, I tried not to think too much. If I heard a song that I loved, I promised myself I wouldn't over-think it. If I loved it and if I wanted to cut it, I would.
We promised new benefits to seniors like preventive screening and diabetes testing. We kept that promise.
California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.
I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.
Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.
Jeremy Corbyn has proved popular with young voters in part because he has promised an end to austerity.
At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.