#prove

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family. ↗

#attitude #home #improve #improvement #some

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one. ↗

— Luc Besson

#concern #could #fact #film #i

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#burning #demonic #get #heretics #need

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#buy #consumerism #getting #improve #lives

Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation. ↗

— John Spratt

#big #equipment #iraqi #iraqi people #liberators

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true. ↗

— James Richardson

#proverbs #truth #wisdom #equality

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance. ↗

— Victor Borge

#head #her #improves #off #opera

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. ↗

— Terry Brennan

#got #greater #nothing #prove #something

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. ↗

— Bob Hope

#bank #lend #need #place #prove

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it. ↗