#proving

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket. ↗

— Venus Williams

#hang #i #improving #racket #up

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#continuing #music #old #own #proving

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#capitalism #civilization #contradiction #dawn #improving

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#amending #continual #deeds #defending #democracy

I think each one of us has committed to improving. ↗

— Jimmy Haynes

#each #i #i think #improving #think

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#expectation #groups #mutually #poetry #political

The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#based #contribute #great #improving #iota

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#corner #improving #only #own #self

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#corner #improving #only #own #self

To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one could help loving. So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#dissent #district- #love