#prove

Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#both #country #image #improve #local

Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories. ↗

— Celia Green

#determined #done #fairly #fashionable #most

You look at John Travolta in 'Pulp Fiction,' you look at Donnie Wahlberg in 'The Sixth Sense.' People have liens against them in crazy ways and the audience is always forgiving - if you prove it. ↗

— Seth Green

#always #audience #crazy #fiction #forgiving

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#completely #concept #correct #danger #entire

I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive. ↗

— Bo Gritz

#back #came #convinced #home #hoping

This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S. ↗

— Mario Monti

#between #blocked #case #certainly #companies

After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#again #agent #anywhere #draft #editor

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#back #come #draft #eyes #figure

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#commit #fails #good #good governance #governance

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#because #courage #figure #figure skating #hard