#proven

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#anything #ashcroft #attack #attorney #attorney general

The effect of the weather on the inhabitants of Provence is immediate and obvious. They expect every day to be sunny, and their disposition suffers when it isn't. Rain they take as a personal affront, shaking their heads and commiserating with each other in the cafes, looking with profound suspicion at the sky as though a plague of locusts is about to descend, and picking their way with distaste through the puddles on the pavement. If anything worse than a rainy day should come along, such as this sub-zero snap, the result is startling: most the population disappears... But what did everyone else do? The earth was frozen, the vines were clipped and dormant, it was too cold to hunt. Had they all gone on holiday?...It was a puzzle, until we realized how many of the local people had their birthdays in September or October, and then a possible but unverifiable answer suggested itself: they were busy indoors making babies. There is a season for everything in Provence, and the first two months of the year must be devoted to procreation. We have never dared to ask. ↗

— Peter Mayle

#business

Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#bourgeois #concerning #fact #fundamentally #initiated

In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time. ↗

— Blair Underwood

#back #black #body #character #come

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. ↗

— John Updike

#appeals #become #child #childlike #count

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is. ↗

— Matthew Vaughn

#directing #everyone #had #hard #i

I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling? ↗

— Tommy Bond

#calling #germany #gestapo #guilty #i

This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character. ↗

— James Stockdale

#being #big #big deal #character #convictions

NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government. ↗

— Bob Inglis

#careful #competitive #draws #education #experts

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#death #doing #once #only #proven