#prove

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#axioms #be true #believe #comes #feel

Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#area #because #body #coexist #committed

Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#doubles #get #improve #played #player

The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#because #between #big #cannot #constant

If a war be undertaken... before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime. ↗

— Charles Eliot Norton

#before #crime #defense #national #peace

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be. ↗

— Edward Norton

#anything #i #lovely #place #prove

What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen. ↗

— Deborah Norville

#benefits #consciously #good #gratitude #happen

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#child #crime #depression #drive #examples

I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#board #by the time #canada #dead #difficult

Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#arnold #bush #country #english #even