#proof

Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#attention #away #book #come #last

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? ↗

— William Cowper

#applause #charms #heart #man #popular

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#finger #i #i remember #kidnapped #more

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.' ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#back #burden #challenger #elsewhere #inverted

It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.' ↗

— Ronald Graham

#ask #computer #correct #could #discouraging

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#bad #bias #easier #evil #gain

There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#always #british #continental #corn #english

We're living proof that nice guys always finish last. ↗

— Matthew Cooper

#finish #finish last #guys #last #living

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#challenge #continue #existence #god #his

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#annually #audit #could #dare #easy