Prove Quotes by Zac Efron, Esther Hicks, Brian Mulroney, B. J. Armstrong, Beth Moore, Molly Ivins and many others.
A lot of people ask: ‘Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?’ But that’s not what I’m about.
There is not a need to prove anything to anyone with your words. Let that which you are – that which you are living – be your clear example to uplift others.
Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let’s acknowledge the urgency of global warming.
Guys are more apt to test me than they are to test a Charles Barkley. I think I have to go out and prove myself all the time, and that’s fine, because I’ve had to prove myself my whole life.
God often proves Himself when we feel we have the least to offer.
You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.
I’m not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too.
Don’t waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.
Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging – it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.
I thought of my mother (…). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.
Haruhi: This is a sibling squabble, not a fight to the death! You’re both wrong, and acting like idiots only proves it!
I always look for opportunities where I can prove my mettle as a versatile artist.
I’m the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.
I just look at what’s the most fun thing I can do next. I’m not looking to prove anything, or to break out or to break away. I feel so lucky, honestly, that I’m still working.
Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
Do internships and work your butt off to learn as much as you can and prove yourself.
Guest roles are how you get initiated into the industry. It’s fun. Over the course of a few years you realise you’ve done many shows. You get a chance to prove yourself, and that’s how you get jobs because of people who have worked with you in the past and trust you.
That mindset never changes. It should never change. If you’ve been in the league for 14 years or been in the league not even a day, you should have that mindset that you’re going to go out there and prove yourself and earn a spot.
Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
There’s nothing to prove, nothing to figure out, nothing to get, nothing to understand. When we finally stop explaining everything to ourselves, we may discover that in silence, complete understanding is already there.
I just feel like I have a lot to prove.
Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.
I think the election of [Barack] Obama was a great step to prove to the world that we believe that all men were created equal. I think it will show that we have humility.
I don’t know why, but despite winning how many world championships, how many Tour stages, and being 31 years old, some people still thought I had to prove myself, you know. So I had to do the Track Worlds to try to prove myself.
I am proudly pro-life and believe that science is proving those who believe in the sanctity of life right every day. A majority of Americans now agree that abortion after five months for any reason is wrong.
I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It’s the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Convince an enemy, convince him that he’s wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and a few others things besides, and that means he is not small. The fact that man has discovered all this precisely proves his greatness.
Goodness knows she is too fierce for you Goodness knows she has eyes for a lord Goodness knows she yet will prove untrue Her cheek’s blush is as false as her word
I wanted to do an action-y thing, purely because I’m the least fit, healthy person in the world. I wanted to prove to myself that I could actually run and not get out of breath and collapse. I wanted to push myself, in that way.
You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.
The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct.
It’s not something you can prove….I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don’t.
Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.
You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock – that you’ve still got it.
And you can break yourself free from your hereditary patterns, cultural codes, social beliefs; and prove once and for all that the power within you is greater than the power that’s in the world.
‘Marvin Gaye’ came about my first day in L.A. It was kind of crazy that that’s my first song that I wrote and it blew up that much. What’s crazy is the next day I wrote ‘See You Again,’ so that’s pretty interesting. I was trying to prove myself as a songwriter.
The search for truth in cyberspace will take you through the wormhole, and there’s nothing on the other side but pedants and nitpickers and bottomless ambiguity. If you’re not careful, you’ll spend all your time proving everything and understanding nothing.
As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It’s less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.
Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.
You don’t have to run around world proving you’re lovable.
When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world (the world of fixed traits) success is about proving you’re smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other (the world of changing qualities) it’s about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.
The families who chose me to take their terminally ill kids on their last hunts in life many times over the years know and love the real Ted Nugent. That they decide I’m good enough to take part in such a spiritual and emotional moment in their lives proves that I am good enough.
One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.
In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war – our home and our identity. But I’m a believer in luck and think the social conditions you’re born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I’ve been lucky.
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud–and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule–that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.
Men rise through the ranks because of potential, but women have to prove themselves – while trying to have children and having no family leave.
I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I’m incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can’t do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father’s nickname for me when I was growing up was ‘Hardhead.’
Success depends on intuition, on seeing what afterwards proves true but cannot be established at the moment.
If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: ‘Prove to me why we should.’
In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?” I stood and removed his shirt. “Then they’ll have a good story to tell.” “Good?” He adopted the pretense of being offended. “Prove me wrong.
I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.
And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.
Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that.
I knew A.J. Muste very well. I tried for a while to be like he was, and that is a total pacifist. But then Margot [my wife] hit me hard in the stomach one day to prove to me that I wasn’t as perfect a pacifist as I thought I was.
The re-use of a Dragon capsule is yet another example of how SpaceX uses cargo flights to prove out new technologies that can be later used on crewed flights, and is a key step toward a commercial return to the Moon.
Since you came back from summer break, our entire relationship is about fooling around. We never talk anymore, and I’m sick of feeling guilty for not ripping my clothes off and spreading my legs to prove I love you.
A man would still do something out of sheer perversity – he would create destruction and chaos – just to gain his point…and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.
Illness is the proving ground of friendship.
I’m learning how to drown out the constant noise that is such an inseparable part of my life. I don’t have to prove anything to anyone, I only have to follow my heart and concentrate on what I want to say to the world. I run my world.
Marry me, Gracie. Marry me and let me take care of you. Let me love you and prove it each and every day.
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
I look forward to proving something to myself and others.
Sure, it’s fun to chat with people with interesting backgrounds who seem to have a passion for your company. But a job interview is not a friendly chat. You need to determine whether candidates, can they really do the job. So ask them to prove it.
The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.
For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an enormous hunger for brotherhood. They are ready for the twenty-third century now, and they are light-years ahead of their petty governments and their visionless leaders.
The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!
I’m not trying to prove myself, and I’m not trying to shock anyone.
That is a real attitude – to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.
There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.
The basic principle I have is that what is most Korean is what is the most international. I don’t want to come here and act like I’m an American. I want to showcase the dynamic potential Korea has, and I want to prove that as an artist.
I’ve always approached spring training as I have something to prove.
Dartmouth Winter Carnival opens, proving once again that bitter cold is no obstacle to going completely out of control.
It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.
I’m happy where I’m at now, but I want to show the world that I’m the No. 1 fighter. I want to prove it the world. I’m focused and ready.
The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things.
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.
Just the fact that you need me to prove I love you is probably a clue it isn’t working
I’m not saying I have to write a book that’s ten times better than my counterparts, but I do think that I have to concentrate my efforts on writing something that will really engage people’s humanity and will tie readers to my characters regardless of race. I have to prove that I can connect with a wider audience.
The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.
Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he’s the kind of man who’ll prove you right.
A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
Could Henry Ford produce the Book of Kells? Certainly not. He would quarrel initially with the advisability of such a project and then prove it was impossible.
I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking – about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it – and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.
The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.
We all understand that the debasement of a nation’s coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!
It’s important to stress what I didn’t find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn’t show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain.
I’m a trained actress and I can do it, but I think that you have to prove yourself.
Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.
The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it’s true.
How many times have you wanted to make a chocolate cake from scratch or prove you can make a flakey crust as good as your grandmother’s….but you just don’t have the time! A snow day is the perfect day to enlist the kids with no time pressure, or worse, dinner guests to impress.
I never once made a discovery … I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light … Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.
I struggled in London for a very long time. ‘Be prepared to struggle a lot’ – it’s a European mentality. The American mentality is positive and ‘You can do it’ and ‘Everything’s possible.’ In Europe it’s an older, more realistic way of thinking. You feel like you’re having to prove that you can do it.
I don’t think I’m better than anyone; I just like to prove to myself that things I imagine can be done.
To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
Whenever you try to break God’s moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others – all while proving His law in the process.
It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.
I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
I can’t wait to shock the doubters and prove I’m better and stronger than I was before.
Were in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.
The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man’s sin than a school boy’s volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence.
Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often of a startling nature, for very diverse fields of effort.
I’m no actor. And I have sixty-four pictures to prove it.
What I really want to do is, first of all, get my music out to the world. And then I would really just like to reach other kids all over the world and tell them to believe in themselves and prove to people that you can do anything you want.
If a proposal doesn’t prove out as expected when we run it, sometimes we change the model.
The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our time is that the current economy proves Friedman flatly wrong.
I see something – some conjunction of forms – which dominates all others. There is a sudden recognition that in what I have been looking at there is contained a unique series of rhythms… A shiver down the spine arrives to prove the validity of such an encounter.
I finally decided that I’m a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn’t that I don’t want to waste my time.
The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: ‘Prove to me why we should.
The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn’t it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up.
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
We will never win this war until we understand the effect that Guantanamo Bay has had on the overall war effort. And we’ll never get the support of the American people if we can’t prove to them that these folks that we’re dealing with are not common criminals. We’re going to keep them – keep you safe from them.
Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.
We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers
I don’t feel that I have to prove anything to anyone as far as what I’ve done in fighting.
It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.
I think you should enjoy this life that you are given on this earth because we really don’t know what it is in the afterlife. We can definitely prove that this life is this life here because we wake up every day and do the same thing that we do.
We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.
You’re the most important thing in the world to me. I know you don’t believe it, but I’m going to prove it to you.
Its just you and your opponent at the board and you’re trying to prove something
The nature of the business is that, once you start proving yourself and the more roles you get, the more exciting the roles that you’re able to go out and do auditions for, or that you’re being offered, get. You have more choices.
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.
These attacks prove one thing for certain: the liberal establishment is desperate to keep leaders like me out of office, and we are sure to hear more wild, dishonest smears during this campaign.
Modelling isn’t something I’m doing to prove people wrong. It’s something I’m doing because it’s what I want to do.
A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data.
To be labelled a cheat – it’s not fair. If I’m a cheat, then prove I’m a cheat or just leave me alone and let me do what I do best.
Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, “You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done”.
The key to success is to not take rejection personally, to know that having faith counts the most when we feel scared the most, that a delay is not a denial and that persistence above all else will prove to be a powerful ally. Oh – and most importantly – do what you LOVE.
It’s a great joy but no test of love or commitment to take your son to a ball game. You really prove your credentials as a good dad when you are willing to take your daughter shopping – more than once.
The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.
When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 – not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.
People always assume that things are just handed to me, but I’ve had to prove myself, every inch of the way.
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
To show a ‘well-founded fear of persecution’, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.
The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.
But there are times when patience proves at fault.
The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of any man or woman. Oh wonderful pliability of human nature, in a society where anyone can become a celebrity! And where any celebrity . . . may become a star!
There’s a lot of great Olympians, but for me, I try to prove myself as one of the best – and that’s the key thing.
Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to the dreamer that the world of his longing made real is no longer that world at all.
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God.
The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!
In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness – these things are hard to prove. Music helps you to focus on your sound. We understand that for very young kids.
To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have to kill him or her. You surrender. … You only demonstrate your lack of capacity, your helplessness. This is failure.
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Apart from being motivation for themselves, I think big givers should also talk about their philanthropy so that their work and their success stories prove inspirational enough for many others to follow.
I want to prove to people that I’m an actor and not just a character.
The claim that SpongeBob makes your child dumber is a causal claim. If you do X, Y will happen. To prove that, you’d have to show that if you forced the children in the no-TV households to watch SpongeBob and changed nothing else about their lives, they would do worse in school.
Yes, I’m often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt – an immense leap of an attempt – to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.
People get so caught up in needing to know and having to prove themselves to be right, and I’m blown away by this.
I’ve always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.
It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.
To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him.
It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes
One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.
Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
Am I just chasing it because it’s the hardest thing for me to get and I want to prove I can do it?
Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.
When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.
You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.
I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.
Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.
I have lived to prove Thoreau’s contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
I don’t need to prove that I’m some great international filmmaker. It’s not really on my list of goals.
Macho does not prove mucho.
Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, ‘Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.
I don’t need to prove I’m an adult by being ultra-sexy that’s immature
Winning the second grand slam, it was a bit different. I don’t have anything to prove anymore. I am at the top: number one.
Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
I love hipsters! Yes, I think they’re hilarious. The really cute ones try to look ugly just to prove “I can’t be ugly.” Normcore was kind of funny too.
Landmarks to the muses that inspired the music. When I could tell it was sincere without trying to prove it
I’ve been fighting my whole career to show a different side and prove naysayers – not prove them wrong, because I don’t think you should get your energy from negative people.
If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.
Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.
You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn’t like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that’s about all you can do.
I think that content posted to Twitter is distributed to more platforms, services, sites, online and offline than any other services out there. Would love to see if someone can prove to me otherwise.
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
Anyone can say the love someone….It’s loving someone enough to let them go that will prove that love.
I’m interested in finding whether or not there is a really massive, what we like to call ‘super massive’ black hole at the center of our galaxy. And the reason this is interesting is that it gives us an opportunity to prove whether or not these exotic objects really exist.
I like to hang with the boys and I like to prove that I can be one of the boys, if not better.
No matter if you have one hand or two hands, when someone tells you you can’t do something, the only thing you can do is just prove them wrong, no matter what it is, no matter how hard it is.
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so
De Niro didn’t gain all that weight to play Jake La Motta just to prove he could get fat – every single one of those transformative things is grounded in the character.
You know, it’s not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.
You’ll never prove you’re too good for a job by not doing your best.
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.
There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don’t achieve what I’ve achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
If we give out thoughts of grouchiness and complaining, etc., we’ll find more to complain about. If we send out love and affirm ‘life loves me’, then we are drawing experiences to ourselves that prove it’s true.
When you believe something is impossible, your mind goes to work for you to prove why. But when you believe, really believe, something can be done, your mind goes to work for you and helps you find the ways to do it.
Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don’t come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don’t have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.
One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent that they serve the economic and political purposes of the corporations, they are the foes – and not the friends – of the working class.
Science has faith. We make postulates. We can’t prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.
The purpose of our creation is obvious: to reach our utmost goals of belief, knowledge, and spirituality; to reflect on the universe, humanity, and God, and thus prove our value as human beings.
No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as the existence of God.
It would be nice to not have to prove myself, and for people to know that I’m good and can play a role. Whatever role that is that lets people know that I can play the next role is what I want to do.
In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes.
I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.
It’s interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it’s like well, just like everybody else. It proves it’s a bad question.
Here ‘s to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here ‘s to the widow of fifty; Here ‘s to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here ‘s to the housewife that ‘s thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I ‘ll warrant she ‘ll prove an excuse for the glass.
When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.
It’s afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn’t necessarily prove that you loved him.
I’d like to prove to women my age that there can still be good years ahead of us.
I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you’re not slightly terrified that you’re going to fail all the time.
There had been questions raised about whether we could ever really unite to work together on an issue, whether we could do it with equal passion and fervor. And it happened during my nomination and I think I forever will be grateful for that love, for that support and for proving those naysayers wrong.
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
You’re constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you’ve made it.
Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers.
They deserve it, after all, and they’re the ones that are going to spread the word for you.
They deserve it, after all, and they’re the ones that are going to spread the word for you.
That is the definition of faith – acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
You have to apply yourself because you’ll never get a better opportunity than the one you have right now. Having said that, people know by now if they like me or not. I don’t need to prove anything.
The Chicago Special Olympics prove a very fundamental fact, the fact that exceptional children – children with mental retardation – can be exceptional athletes, the fact that through sports they can realize their potential for growth.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.
We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.
All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount.
I want to prove you don’t need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.
Stop spending so much time trying to prove what you already know to people who don’t really matter. It just makes you look insecure and lacking self-confidence.
I am fortunate that I get sent scripts and get to meet people I would never have met had I not done ‘Harry Potter.’ But I feel I had to come out of that show and prove that I am not a one trick pony and can do other stuff.
If you want to prove yourself to God, improve yourself. Words of guidance are so simple, yet so deep – anybody can win, if he be the soul entry.
Unfortunately, in every field, there are so many entries and so to win , one has to cultivate excellence.
Unfortunately, in every field, there are so many entries and so to win , one has to cultivate excellence.
. . . the fellow’s got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God’s a secretion of the liver–all right once in a way, but there’s no need to keep on about it. There’s nothing you can’t prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
A surprising feature of herbal research is that it is seldom the rare, exotic, and beautiful plant that proves the most interesting; more often it is some common, familiar, and despised weed that is discovered to have undreamed-of virtues.
I always have a point to prove where I have a chip on my shoulder at all times.
Farmiga proves as fearless a director as she is an actress. She lights up Higher Ground.
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn’t be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?
Not that I’ve ever feared a fight or backed down from one –(Wren) That’s the truth. I swear he’s half beta fish. He’d fight his own reflection to prove a point. (Maggie)
I’ve really fought to get into rooms, and I’m a big believer in auditioning. It’s hard, because I’m insecure, but I have an intense desire to prove myself to people.
It’s very demeaning that we have to put on a show to prove that we know how to put on a show.
Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb.
The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces are prepared and served. If well made….they prove that both skill and taste have been exerted in its arrangements. When coarsely or carelessly prepared….they greatly discredit the cook.
As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.
The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
When Ben Stiller and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, ‘For me, a little bit goes a long way.’
We don’t want to put people in jail unless we prove that they knew they were doing something they shouldn’t do.
I like somebody who makes me laugh. He’s also got to be prepared – I’m sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point.
It [selecting as many candidates as possible] is also advantageous for the [Conservative] Party because it helps us to build a base in those areas where we have not in, recent times, been as active as we’d have liked. It means that opposing parties don’t get a free run but are challenged to prove themselves to voters.
You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.
You don’t have to prove to me you’re beautiful to strangers, I’ve got loving eyes of my own.
In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
Donald Trump and the Bomb are nearly the same age. Which of them will prove to be more destructive remains to be seen, but in combination they are terrifying.
Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance.
I’ve always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said.
I don’t want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven’t I?
What before seemed a…frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all.
We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.
England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it’s important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.
Anytime I was challenged and told I couldn’t do something, I would absolutely have to prove the opposite. And I did.
Wish I could prove I love you, but does that mean I have to walk on water?
I don’t have to prove my worth and value to any but those I love, and that I do by being who I am, with confidence that those I love appreciate the good and accept the bad. Does anything else really matter?
Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.
I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.
That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.
There will always be people who challenge the idea that you belong, but it’s important to work hard, to focus on yourself, and prove that you belong in this space of high-level athletics.
Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and survive.
At times God’s best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will thereby become distinguished alumni of life’s school of affliction, graduating with honors.
Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.
When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.
Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.
I have to prove myself in a lot of ways – as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.
When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge.
Becca Gardner is wonderful as the good-hearted little Griff who refuses to be daunted by all the heart-ache and resentment on dad’s ranch and this young actress proves there’s another young child actress in Hollywood besides Dakota Fanning.
If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.
Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Bebo has an opportunity to prove its products and services. Bebo plays in a very competitive space; it has big market share in specific countries. An AIM profile vs. a Bebo profile are very different experiences.
If people want to pigeon hole you then just view it as an opportunity to prove them wrong and show that you are different to what they think you are.
We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.
There are ever two ways of striving to fill one’s place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one’s self useful; the other, by striving to render one’s self useless. The first way is the commoner and the more attractive; the second is the rarer and more noble.
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn’t a man of action.
One does not have to prove a negative. One should assume a negative.
Negroes don’t even like snails! What they’re doing is proving they’re integrated.
Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.
It’s incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.
I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.
Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can’t have your kayak and heat it too.
When we explore the cosmos, we come to believe and prove that we can solve problems that have never been solved. It brings out the best in us. Space exploration imbues everyone with an optimistic view of the future.
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.
Age’s terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds may have to be unbound, and old scars pointed to with pride, to prove to ourselves we have been brave and noble.
The result proves the wisdom of the act.
That’s something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
I think I don’t have as much to prove now.
When you’re a guest star, you kinda feel like you have to prove something. Everyone else is on the show and has started establishing relationships. And you’re just hoping that they’re happy you were cast.
I always try to overachieve. I feel I have something to prove every day.
The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final stages in the life of humanity will be marked by the monstrous war of all against all: the amount of suffering will be maximal.
You can’t prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell – although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I’d say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn’t really looked at either painter’s work. Taste is a blood sport.
To regain our political footing, we must prove to moderates that Democrats can make tough choices.
Part of me was always trying to prove that I belonged and prove that I deserved the job and prove that I could handle it. And that takes the fun out of it.
It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.
I’m an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I’ve never been one to miss an opportunity because I’ve never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter… It’s been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.
… oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love–not this efficient, philanthropic self.
Many instructional arrangements seem “contrived,” but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher’s function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student’s life.
Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
I’m very competitive and if I’m not in the weight room than someone is getting better than me. I just have to stay in there and prove myself any way that I can.
Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not how to manage risk.
If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.
You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.
Making fun of guys to get them to perform and prove themselves, that’s always going to exist. But we have to equally celebrate them and empower them.
They didn’t do this because they have facts, because they have solid proof against me. They did it because the president spoke and now they must prove that he was right and that is my great worry.
He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.
My favorite quote about entrepreneurship is that to understand an entrepreneur, you should study a juvenile delinquent. They’re both saying: “This sucks and I’m going to do it another way.” You have to want to break the rules and prove that your way works.
Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.
The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many…. The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.
The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.
I feel like I have something to prove. I’m just not this cool fashion kid that be around ASAP Rocky.
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
I don’t have anything to prove ever, ever in my life. If I have something to prove, what does that mean for everyone else? And I think everyone should have that attitude.
The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple’s a rose,
And the pear is, and so’s
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only knows
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose –
But were always a rose.
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple’s a rose,
And the pear is, and so’s
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only knows
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose –
But were always a rose.
The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty.
We live to prove that cooperation works better than conflict.
While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.
Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.
In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.
If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.
I can’t think of any decision where the entire Congress immediately rushes to condemn a decision by the court. It’s getting to be election time and this gives everyone in Congress a chance to prove they are patriotic.
The traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. If we want to save this world from unimaginable destruction we should concentrate not on the faraway God , but on the heart of the individual.
I don’t think there’s a lot of dispute for this. You can argue that we didn’t get everything done that we wanted to get done, but I can make a really strong argument, and I think prove, that by almost every measure the country’s better off now than when I started.
It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
Once people put that title on me as one of the better shooters, I just wanted to be the best shooter. That’s what I feel like I was out to prove.
I’m hoping that these series, that originally aired in the 80’s and 90’s, prove to be as entertaining online and on portable devices as they were when first broadcast on network television.
What you do simply proves what you believe.
That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.
It is not the practice, now will I allow subversives to get away by insisting that I’ve got to prove everything against them in a court of law or [produce] evidence that will stand up to the strict rules of evidence of a court of law.
When I finish with one thing very well, I start some other thing. I don’t like to stop. I like to continually prove myself.
My opinion – nay more, my conviction – is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera; and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.
To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
He was chugging brown pop from a can Jack had handed him while he stuffed nacho cheese Doritos in his face. I was glad to see he looked lots better, almost completely like himself, which proves Doritos and brown pop really are health foods.
I still have a lot to learn, and I still have a lot to prove.
My thing I liked was to challenge guys that were smaller, guys that were supposed to be quicker. Because I think self-consciously I was trying to prove to people it wasn’t just my height that was getting me across in these various sports. It was some other intrinsic things that I had that made me a good athlete.
The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.
There’s no way to prove that there is no God. You just have to take it on faith.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.
When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.
AB=1/4((A+B)^2-(A-B)^2) is an amazing identity, and unfortunately, I have to remind my current students how to prove it.
The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.
Everything comes from a weird place that I don’t understand. I make a piece of art just to prove that I exist in my own way. And I can’t make something nice. I have to make something that makes me uncomfortable.
How often has Hitler said to me: ‘I know that my decision or action is correct. I cannot explain at the moment why, but I feel that it is right and the future will prove it so’.
Because I was into like proving myself, which was one of the big things that ah, that the whole military experience sort of offers a kid at that age, um, I went to officer candidate school. Um, and I graduated as a second lieutenant at the age of nineteen.
Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark’s nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love.
The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.
A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour’d by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
I didn’t need to take any fight for the last 10 years. But I’ve always fought the best and I’ve always wanted to prove myself to the best.
The United States has been utilizing what may prove to be the most historically inept strategy in the entire history of warfare, in which the enemy nations are occupied while allowing its own territory to be colonized.
It takes vision and courage to create – it takes faith and courage to prove.
When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.
My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size.
Like most successful businesses, you and your employees have a vast knowledge base and expertise in your vertical, as well as a lot of great video and text content to prove it. So, why not monetize your expertise and create digital products and membership courses?
To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
I’m not trying to prove anything.
For me personally, I just try to prove myself in my work. I’m just trying to get better at what I do, and hopefully that will impact women in music, and hopefully the girls in the crowd will see my up there as a bandleader and think, ‘Wow, maybe I can do that one day.’
There was a very slight chance she might actually kill him that way, and if she did, she’d be brought up on charges. Unless, of course, she could prove harmful intent. She could see it now. See, Your Honor, he was going to f*ck me silly, make me like it.
In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.
A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see
We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.
When Ben and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, ‘For me, a little bit goes a long way.’
You know,” I told him,”if you don’t know how to eat a cupcake, that’s nothing to be ashamed of.” Now he did smile. “I know how to eat a cupcake.” “Sure you do.” “I do,” he said. “I just don’t want one of those.” “Yeah? Prove it.
A witty quote proves nothing.
The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.
Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.
Woe to me if I should prove myself but a halfhearted soldier in the service of my thorn-crowned Captain.
Most pro bodybuilders have bad relationships with their fathers. We want to prove something.
You might not trust me. Please give me a chance and time. I will prove myself for all of you.
As a comedian, I’m forced to have a tough skin. Until people laugh, they are detractors. You walk into a new audience where nobody knows you, they go: ‘Make us laugh. Show us what you’re made of. Prove why we should be listening to you.’
I don’t have to prove anything.
Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth.
I haven’t always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can’t emerge from a franchise and do well, that’s a very strong driving force.
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.
It’s the progressive left in this country that has viciously and systematically slimed female conservatives for their beliefs. We have the well-worn battle scars to prove it.
When I got Jacob’s Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn’t allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I’d be, ‘out of there.’
I guess I have to prove myself all over again, even if it’s to the world. I don’t have a problem doing that.
I have a chip on my shoulder I pet every morning, a constant feeling like I have something to prove. Hearing that the canon can’t be diversified, there’s no room for more brown faces – that fueled my fire.
I didn’t feel I had to prove anything more.
Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.
It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.
I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.
In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology… But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
The Supreme Court has made it nearly impossible to prove race discrimination in the criminal justice system.
American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.
We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.
You said I was weak. You said I couldn’t do it. Thank you. You gave me everything I needed to prove you wrong.
The sort of movies I make are not ones that can easily be sold upfront, so I have to make them and prove their mettle before I can sell them.
It was like I couldn’t even begin to tell my mom I was singing. I didn’t want anyone to think that she was trying to get me to sing. I wanted to prove to myself I could do it on my own. I really wanted to do a completely different thing.
Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine, Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong.
Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.
I tend to enjoy proving people wrong.
I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy … proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas is closer to Christianity than those of Jewish liberalism or even atheistic Marxism.
Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life.
Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they chat someone up? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerers biggest challenge.
I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes – and I saw Derek Jeter. They don’t have to tell people they’re good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition.
The Bible is still the only dirty book I’ve ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship keeps trying to catch up, proving that all the hatred of gay is just stupid translation, though the snake-oil preachers don’t want to hear it.
One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics … Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.
The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.
Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn’t understand either men or percentages.
A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong.
By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don’t really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.
Pound had argued – and Eliot had helped him prove – that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.
The White House has now released military documents that they say prove George Bush met his requirements for the National Guard. Big deal, we’ve got documents that prove Al Gore won the election.
No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know.
The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience
And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify to that fact.
You can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FГRTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do
I don’t want to be just a face. I want to go out there and prove something on the field.
Confidence isn’t something you prove to people, it’s something that comes off from who you are and how you represent yourself.
Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?
Kevin Reeves…proving an ill wind blows nobody no good.
To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so often to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs to be cultivated as a talent, as well as recommended as a virtue.
From the moment I start a new novel, life’s just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there’s still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.
It was tough to write. We had the shadow of “Lost” hanging around and I just kept saying, “Guys, we need to take a really wide birth around ‘Lost.’ We’re going to get lots of comparisons anyway, but we need to prove, within a couple episodes, that it’s not ‘Lost.'”
Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: “Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth”.
Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.
It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.
Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There’s just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.
When I decided to come back, I wanted to prove to the rest of the world I’m still the best.
Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.
Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you take only what is worth having. He who takes advice about his savings from one who is inexperienced in such matters, shall pay with his savings for proving the falsity of their opinions.
I have said that science is impossible without faith. … Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than something which we can prove, and to act on it is a supreme assertion of faith … Science is a way of life which can only fluorish when men are free to have faith.
The prophet who misses it occasionally in his prophecies may be ignorant, immature, or presumptuous, or he may be ministering with too much zeal and too little wisdom and anointing. But this does not prove him a false prophet. It is certainly possible for a true prophet to be inaccurate.
A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.
And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.
And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the idea of setting an example – proving that it is acceptable to be alone in a public place where everyone else is in groups, and to just be sitting there eating, not having to be engrossed in anything else.
Live your own truth and it won’t matter how many lies they tell about you. The truth will prove itself.
I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the UK to prove that was the case.
I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.
Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?
This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.
Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I’d suggest we leave, as a dossier in our defence, the collected letters to agony aunts and uncles down the generations. It would certainly prove that we weren’t all bad!
When you’re trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain’t to be played with. You’ve got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon’ make music, let’s just make music.
You can turn the negative around and use it as a motivating force in your lie. One of my biggest desires has always been to prove certain people wrong – to prove to them I can do it despite what they think or say.
All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered.
When you look at the calculation, it’s amazing that every time you try to prove or disprove time travel, you’ve pushed Einstein’s theory to the very limits where quantum effects must dominate. That’s telling us that you really need a theory of everything to resolve this question. And the only candidate is string theory.
Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
You can never argue anyone into the Kingdom of Heaven, you cannot argue anyone anywhere. The only result of arguing is to prove to your own mind that you are right and the other fellow wrong. You cannot argue for truth; but immediately Incarnate Truth is presented, a want awakens in the soul which only God can meet.
We are all brothers under the skin – and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
As far as feeling like I need to prove myself or this or that, I don’t feel that way anymore. I’ve been in this business for ten years, so I’m kind of past all that. I was there where, as a female, you always feel like you have to prove yourself; you have to outwork them. But all I worry about now is being prepared.
I did not come into the world to prove anything. I came into the world to love everyone and everything.
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
You think you’re an artist; prove it
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
When I arrived, I felt the spotlight shining brightly on me, and I knew the sharks were ready to strike if I did not pan out and prove myself to be the showman and the player the college ranks had labeled me to be.
We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.
The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.
Old #64 chose… a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them.
All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.
I’m trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that’s not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.
As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values … A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values.
The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden…A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.
Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don’t care if they’re sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English.
When faith burns itself out, ’tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.
Jesters do oft prove prophets.
Don’t respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.
The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.
Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.
I’d love to try and teach Donald Trump how to write a song. I’d love to put him in a room with another person – someone who’s protesting him at the Women’s March. I’d put the three of us in a room and all write a song together. If that can happen, it proves we can get over our differences.
The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.
Women are one of the Almighty’s enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love.
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn’t about anyone else.
You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.
We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let’s build an Indian gun. There’s a belief that Indian companies aren’t capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
The purpose that you were created Man is exactly this: to prove, you too, with your life and with your work that everything can and should be done without any purpose. To be accomplished as the entire creation is accomplished.
Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to “prove their love” like a moose needs a hat rack.
The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn’t prove that that was wrong; so we’re clearer about that.
Even after I got some recognition and success, I still had to work hard and prove myself.
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.
the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.
Men display less self-doubt and lead with what seems always like a sense of force and direction. We are not as familiar with women leaders, and so we question their skills. As women, we always need to work harder to prove our competence.
Everybody believes in psychiatry; it’s supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I’d concede, but there is no physical proof.
I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick’s wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other.
You can’t use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn’t have that notion that it’s proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.
I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way/ And say I’ve been getting along/ For long before you came into the play.
Enjoy it if you do, but don’t tell me how to live or teach it in school, or not allow a woman the right to choose, and so on. Yeah, all of that slips into my work. I even got a death threat the other day for not being pro gun, which just proves my point. They can kiss my ass.
Faith isn’t about logic, son,” Haddek said. “Perhaps that’s your problem. You cannot ‘disprove’ the things you study, any more than we can prove to you that the Hero will save us. We simply must believe it, and accept the things Preservation has taught us.
Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.
Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us.
I do feel there are countless people on earth who do not believe in the inner power, the inner life. They feel that the outer strength and the outer life are everything. I do not agree with them. There is an inner life; there is spirit, and my ability to lift these heavy weights proves that it can work in matter as well.
We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion.
I think she [Michelle Obama] is reluctant to date someone she’s above at work. It’s 1989, she’s at a law firm, surrounded by mostly white men, and she has to prove herself every day.
It’s much better being an older father. You don’t have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you’re who you want to be, for better or worse.
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
This guy [Tyson Fury] really wants to prove himself in the ring and confirm what he keeps telling everyone, that he’s the best in the world.
It’s great to have people to bounce off and I love working with people my age. I think young actors have such energy about them and such a passion and a drive to do their best and prove themselves constantly, and to work with that is really fun and interesting.
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
It is so important for European countries, post-Second World War, to prove that they can be successful multiethnic and multiracial democracies. I think we in Britain have had great success in avoiding the hatreds and prejudices of the past.
I’m not a celebrity trainer. I don’t have my own line of DVDs, but I’m a fighter and have everything to prove.
If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness–to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.
I’ve been into clubbing for years. I’ve said from the beginning I’m into dance, it gets me excited and I think this record is going to go some way to prove that to people, hopefully.
I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.
We’re seeing an enormous amount of global upward mobility that’s quite rapid and quite sudden, and undiscovered individuals have a chance – using the Internet, using computers – to prove themselves very quickly. So I think the mobility story will be a quite complicated one.
Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm’s argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.
You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.
Who benefits from Wi-Fi? We all benefit from Wi-Fi. Is there an industry here? Of course, there is an industry, as well. The point is public health needs protecting. I don’t think you should have to prove that there is some profiteer who might have an ulterior motive in order to protect public health.
Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
I’m not trying to prove that I’m capable of doing many things.
Obviously, people are going to think what they think, and I’ve never had any problems proving people wrong. I do what I do.
The spirits, he said, the souls. They are not angry at the living, they just want to help. Helping others is the only way we can prove we still matter.
The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.
My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there’s the sophomore record, then there’s this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.
I went out with seven actors in a row. There are problems with that. I’ve had the really good-looking dramatic actor, and that has its problems. And then I’ll go out with the funny guy. It’s almost like the funny guy has more to prove.
Wait a minute. I don’t need to keep proving myself. I don’t need to keep showing up at every party.
New York’s such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guy was very rude. I said, “I’d like a card.” He says, “You have to prove you’re a citizen of New York.” So I stabbed him.
There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.
I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
I don’t believe in proving a point to anybody. Nobody is that important.
While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can’t figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn’t prove there’s a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.
The Daily Caller has obtained an advance copy of a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report set to be released Tuesday morning that definitively proves malicious intent by the IRS to improperly block conservative groups that an IRS adviser deemed ‘icky.’
I am wholly in favour of ‘dull stodges’. A surprising large proportion prove ‘educable’: for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work.
In this country, a smart leader is suspect. That’s just the way it is. Even George Bush’s father, who was a lot smarter than the son, had to sort of prove that he wasn’t that bright.
Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.
how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.
The Bible says that the earth is immovable. It cannot be moved. So now is your chance to prove your point. Run outside and move the earth. Perhaps you and your friends could jump on it, or find a rocky outcrop and push it together. Maybe after that little experiment you will concede that the earth is immovable.
The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.
I’m not playing to prove anything to anybody.
You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don’t have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn’t matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won’t have that one lucky moment.
I have a singular focus, I’m a perfectionist, and I always want to prove I am the best and the best version of myself.
A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals but as antecedently existing actualities. They have failed to see that in converting moral realities into matters of intellectual assent they have evinced lack of moral faith.
One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.
Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in itself a noble and almost divine quality, it may also happen that while you practice it, you will encounter someone so grateful that he will make up for all the others’ ingratitude.
Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.
Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.
Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.
Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.
My ex-wife was a philosophy major at NYU. Yeah, she and I used to have deep philosophical discussions where she would prove that I didn’t exist.
Sure to prove indispensable for the study of Black Power.
There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it’s enough.
Everyone told me you can’t build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren’t enough investors or engineers or top-level managers. Each day, I’m driven to prove them wrong.
If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
I’ve always felt I had to prove myself, and now it has become second nature. When I first went to university, I took lodgings with a woman who said, ‘What are the chances of you staining my pans?’ I said, ‘I don’t think I understand the question…’ and she said, ‘When you cook your curries.’
I’m not out trying to prove anything. All I’m trying to do is go out there and help my team any way I can to win. I don’t get caught up in the individual stats or the awards.
You can rarely prove something to someone who does not want to see it proven, and even more to the point, you can almost never prove something to someone who has financial or ideological reasons to not see it proven.
Sometimes you have to kind of keep proving that you’re improvising. That’s the game, or the goal, of long-form TV improv, is that you have to kind of keep reminding and showing people that you’re improvising, because they won’t believe you really.
I have nothing to prove, because I am already approved.
The biggest thing is to make sure that when something comes out about you that is false that you prove it’s not true.
Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change – for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.
I know that two and two make four – and should be glad to prove it too if I could – though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you.
I love the fight. I don’t – it’s not a negative, it’s a positive, and I love the challenge. There’s that little part of me that I love proving someone wrong in that way when they have an image of me or something, or they think they have me figured out or they think I’m a certain way.
You can prove almost anything with the evidence of a small enough segment of time. How often, in any search for truth, the answer of the minute is positive, the answer of the hour qualified, the answers of the year contradictory!
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.
I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive.
If you write a book that’s as powerful and successful as ‘Bastard,’ there’s a strong desire to prove there’s something else.
You have to take those concepts and prove them, a little bit like you do a PhD thesis.
This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety … While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals.
“I should have more faith,” he said; “I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.”
There’s always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.
Yes, it’s my real name. I had to pull out my passport twice today to prove it.
We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when ‘West Side Story’ was real. They have the scars to prove it.
The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.
A lot of my best friends are the best person for the job in a film, but sometimes being a filmmaker I’ll give a buddy a chance to prove himself. Other times I want to go with a tried-and-true person. It can absolutely cause problems.
I think the energy I give off is quite non-confrontational. That’s something you learn from karate. Once you try to be a tough guy, you’ve got to pay up. You’ve got to prove yourself. And that’s exhausting.
‘T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I’ve tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.
I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft ’tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.
War destroys. War obliterates. War is ruination. And war begets more war. After thousands of years of experience proving this, and reams of literature and countless works of art exposing it, when are people going to learn?
We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to prove us; temptations and distractions to try us; disappointments, discouragements, reverses, failures and all kinds of situations to determine our character.
I did come to realize that getting your first job is hard, but it’s not nearly as hard as getting your seventh job. That is hard. That’s when you really have to prove it to people.
Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit.
Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.
[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.
I feel like you have to constantly keep proving yourself, and you have to constantly keep getting out there and showing them you’re more than just that one song on the radio that’s just playing. And that’s what I had to do the first time around; I had to keep going out there and keep performing live.
With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history.
Mathematics is not a deductive science – that’s a clichГ©. When you try to prove a theorem, you don’t just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.
Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is (alive). And, thus, it should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.
I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.
Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.
Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man.
I have found that what drives me is the desire to prove, to myself and to my peers, that I can do what I set out to do and build something that matters.
And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.
Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.
If what I do prove well, it won’t advance. They’ll say it’s stolen, or else it was by chance.
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
The argument goes something like this: “I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.
The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra – they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn’t take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it’s really fun. It kind of wows people. It’s like they’re watching magic happen right before their eyes.
Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.
If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong.
We do not have to prove the Book of Mormon is true. The book is its own proof.
It’s hard to prove yourself when the substance isn’t there in certain roles.
I actually think, when you’re young, ambitions are somewhat common – you want to prove yourself. It may grow out of different life experiences. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the admiration of the demanding father. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the love of an absent father.
They [parents] can resist the impulse to “prove” their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and attention instead.
War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.
Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I’ve never had to prove my manhood to anyone.
…Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best.
I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.
I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn’t share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.
No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is Well, you know, it’s possible to believe in evolution and believe in God. Yes, and it’s possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn’t prove Spiderman is true.
Any idiot can stand in front of a target,” I say. “It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall is a sign of cowardice” “Then it should be easy for you,” Eric sys. “If you’re willing ot take his place.
You look at my audience, and it proves what Congress thinks America is, is wrong. I get people across the political spectrum. Parents and kids come and they’re all punked out, and there are these other guys in John Deere caps.
Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it.
Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.
Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.
Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.
Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,–all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.
You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you’re gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you’re gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.
Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain, To prove that demon pox warps the brain. So though ‘ti pity, it’s not in vain That the pox-ridden worm was slain: For to believe in me, you all must deign.
This proves Indians do nothing else but surf the Web.
The burden is on the Jewish majority in Israel to prove that the definition of their country as Jewish and democratic is not a contradiction.
I don’t have to prove my life. I just have to live.
There comes a point in time when you must know that everything you have already given or done is enough. This is not something anyone else can tell you. You must know. Giving without receiving doesn’t prove anything except that you know how to be taken advantage of.
Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
No one’s calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.
The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken.
I confess that Fermat’s Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.
We do not believe in immortality because we can’t prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.
From within, from the very most interior center of existence and consciousness, the fact of oneness evermore proves to be the overriding truth.
The true one of youth’s love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.
In sports, you simply aren’t considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
It’s so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman’s place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.
The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.
We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads.
I want to prove that he’s wrong – he’s wearing a t-shirt that says he won the last two fights.
Don’t show up to prove. Show up to improve.
I like to prove things wrong.
I am pushed by my critics. I don’t want to say I want to prove them wrong, but it pushes me on the field to play with a chip on my shoulder, and I play best when I have a chip on my shoulder.
God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the wrong instruments are being used for the job.
You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.
I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor.
I don’t want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson – who I have nothing against – but I don’t want to have to go on talk shows and pull out every SAT word I’ve ever learned to prove, like, ‘Take me seriously, I am intelligent, I can speak.’
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of understanding the will and spirit of God, is only a silent working of the inner man.
I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t have to do that as much.
The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.
The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I’d have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.
As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
Being Tigerstar’s son has meant I’ve had to win the trust of every ThunderClan cat over and over. So I know how frustrating it is when you have to prove something that shouldn’t need proving.
I’ve always been the guy that loved being scared or loved having pressure on me, because I always wanted to prove myself wrong and always wanted to prove that I could do it.
I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.
Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.
If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you’d want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?
You can’t prove you’re an American by waving Old Glory.
There is no strong evidence to prove significant human influence on climate on a global basis. The global cooling trend from 1940 to 1970 is inconsistent with models based on anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. There is no reliable evidence to support that the 20th century was the warmest in the last 1000 years.
We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.
I grew up hearing everyone tell me ‘God loves you’. I would say big deal, God loves everybody. That don’t make me special! That just proves that God ain’t got no taste. And, I don’t think He does. Thank God! Because He takes the junk of our lives and makes the most beautiful art.
It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.
Forgive me if, in friendship’s way, I offer thee a wreath of May…. [N]ourished by the dews of heaven…. So I have Ivy placed between, To prove that worth is ever green. The little blue Forget-me-not… Spring’s messenger in every spot, Smiling on all—”Remember me!
I’m going to prove the impossible really exists
Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.
A little while alone in your room
will prove more valuable than anything else
that could ever be given you.
will prove more valuable than anything else
that could ever be given you.
Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved.
You’re in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody’s as good as anybody else as long as he’s got the dough to prove it.
I’m not stupid!” In Bean’s experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
Deep down inside, I do feel, at times, that I have to prove to people that I’m actually an artist.
I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.
I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they’ve heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.
