Revise Quotes
65 quotes by 61 authors
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We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax…
— Nicolas Sarkozy
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Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the pros…
— Pope Francis
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Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.
— Oswald Chambers
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We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur.
— Sol Stein
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You should look ahead now and decide what you want to do with your lives. Fix clearly in your mind what you want to be…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over…
— Nelson Rockefeller
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Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Jesus was a white man, too. Its like we have, hes a historical figure thats a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I just want kids…
— Megyn Kelly
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Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we…
— Philip K. Dick
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But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States…
— Richard Perle
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I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would…
— Erin Morgenstern
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I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.
— Erin Morgenstern
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Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and…
— Alex Flinn
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I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that…
— Michael Cunningham
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I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.
— Terry Gross
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Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.
— William Strunk, Jr.
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The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its…
— Louis Aragon
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