#proved

Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#back #back up #big #cleaned #draft

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff. ↗

— Colin Firth

#greedy #i #much #next #person

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. ↗

— Andre Gide

#give #giving #only #possesses #possession

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work. ↗

— John Dyer

#cleaner #colours #energy #i #improved

Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#authorized #congress #constitution #federal #federal law

So when they don't have certainty, they go the other way. In Ohio, we have given them certainty and things have been improved. But if we can get a Romney presidency, they are going to get much better. ↗

— John Kasich

#better #certainty #get #given #go

The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#because #clear #congress #even #experience

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#brush #dangerous #down #fires #going

My health is very much improved. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#improved #much #very

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person. ↗

— Connie Willis

#artist #astaire #because #effortless #fred