#rove

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#characters #designed #formal #inquiry #judges

Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#congressional district #day #district #each #fastest

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

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#cushions #improve #onion #rings #time

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

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset? ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#basically #bother #evil #giving #improve

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#compelling #controversial #different #fascinated #i

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

— Victor Borge

#head #her #improves #off #opera

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music. ↗

— David Bowie

#music #power #prove #sustaining #wanted