#rove

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#determined #man #prove #round #time

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#copper #farther #get #going #improve

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#art #caused #direction #disappointment #drove

I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#any #better #could #cycling #dreamed

What I have to do now is figure where my passion is, and follow my heart; I've proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven't been listening to my heart in the last little while. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#figure #follow #haven #heart #i

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily. ↗

— William Hurt

#i #necessarily #point #prove #want

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement. ↗

— William Hurt

#improvement #lack #movies #really

I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy. ↗

— M. F. Husain

#controversy #create #done #i #i think

So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure. ↗

— John Hutton

#competing #create #economic #economic growth #environment

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true. ↗

— Dean Inge

#be true #certain #certain things #choice #confident