#proving

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#any #campaign #hardest #how #political

It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips. ↗

— Mink Stole

#best #field #friend #i #john

My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#house #i #improving #leave #many

Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#fortunate #fortune #improving-chances #lottery #luck

First you find out what you have , Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more. ↗

— Lilith Saintcrow

#inspirational #needs #inspirational

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#getting #improving #middle #middle age #old

Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#apparently #bearing #burden #coming #custody

I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right. ↗

— Harriet Harman

#deprive #different #everybody #going #great

Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance. ↗

— Yao Ming

#distance #everybody #i #i am #improving

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day. ↗

— Dannii Minogue

#because #coach #could #day #doing