“I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'” ShouldRunningPresidentCitiesPromiseRepublicanTaxesShould HavePressesCrowdsCampaignsReleaseConventionsArenaPrintedKansasKansas CityPress Release Author:Wavy Gravy
“Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.” ShouldLooksIdeasEndsMatterAmericaOpportunityNationsPromiseSucceedEqualEssentialsShould HaveWho You AreDetermineOutcomesEqual OpportunityWhere You Come Author:Barack Obama
“This is a diseased century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but whenever we applied the healing knife a new sore appeared. Our will was hard and pure, we should have been loved by the people, but they hate us. Why are we so odious and detested? We brought you truth and in our mouth it sounded like a lie. We brought you freedom, and it looks in our hands like a whip. We brought you the living life, and where our voice is heard the trees wither and there is a rustling of dry leaves. We brought you the promise of the future, but our tongue stammered and barked.” PeopleShouldLooksHas BeensHardHandsLyingHateCausesVoiceHealingHeardTreeCenturyPromisePureDiseaseMouthsShould HaveTongueLive LifeDryKnivesShould Have BeenWhipsDiseasedExactnessPromise Of The FutureDry Leaves Author:Arundhati Roy
“The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.” WayShouldYearsLittlesHas BeensNightBlackWaterDarknessAirTreeSkyStreetsFinePromiseMoonFairsShould HaveWoodsLampsShould Have BeenFrostCrispsPuddlesFruitionMain Street Book:Winesburg, Ohio Source: Winesburg, Ohio
“She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it.” PeopleThinkingShouldHandsCarePainGivenLove IsGoneTakenPromiseShould HaveAbsenceRememberedCultLureGood Family Book:The Harlequin: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel Source: The Harlequin: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“What, no flirting?” I asked, trying to buy time. “Aren’t you going to at least try to be sexy? Think of all those vampire fans out there—they’d be so disappointed.” I pulled out my silver knife. Probably should have paid more attention during my knife training. “Tell you what. Let me go and I promise not to tell anyone that you aren’t suave.” ThinkingShouldTryingAttentionFansPromiseTrainingShould HaveLet MePaidSexyVampireSilverDisappointedKnivesFlirtingI PromiseLet Me GoSuave Author:Kiersten White
“You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer. I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.” IfsShouldMindRunningLife IsLyingTakenStreetsCryMinesBrotherPromiseShould HaveSilentTricksStealingMy BrotherLos AngelesRepublicHidingKillersDeceivingCheatHuntsHiding Place Book:Legend Source: Legend