The European Union and Russia have an identical viewpoint. We have condemned any potential revision of the ABM treaty, believing that such… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated,… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more… — Ellen Hunnicutt Copy Share Image
Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat. — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted… — Akira Mori Copy Share Image
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Credit ratings and risk weightings must undergo a thorough process of review and revision. No security or instrument on the planet should… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes. — John Irving Copy Share Image
In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening… — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
The revision of any kind of established model is always a political act. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I think there simply comes a point at which you're beating your head against the wall with revision, when you're making something… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the "Intervention" section of the book we go into that looping from a battery of positions (where healer and sufferer are… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
As Flannery O'Connor says, a person can choose what she writes but she can't choose what she makes live. Some people are… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Greeting to the final contestants of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. The earlier revision has been revoked. Closer examination of the rule book… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that… — Jesse Michaels Copy Share Image
I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since… — Colin Baker Copy Share Image
One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
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