Prove Quotes - Page 27

• If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Military, Technology, Advancement

  "Collected Writings, Volume 1" by Omar N. Bradley, 1967.

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• I can say that if you're a writer who happens to be a woman, you'll get a book cover that depicts a woman with no head, or a woman turning away, or a pair of high heels. You have to fight to not get stuck with these covers. In the U.S. women are chick-lit writers unless they prove otherwise, and that's frustrating.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, Fighting, Stuck

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• If you're in music, you're in music, and if you're in music you just want to keep making records and playing. That's what it's about, isn't it? At least, that's what I always thought it was about, anyway. I don't think I could bear years and years off. Perhaps in me older, older age, maybe I will, for physical reasons. But to me you've always got to keep proving yourself. I never want to just sit on me laurels. You have to keep forging, to prove yourself to yourself. I always think, every time I start a record, this could be the best thing I've ever done.

  Paul Weller

  Thinking, Age, Done

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• I think it was going to be hard to work with Russians on Syria. There is some potential overlap between the U.S. and Russia in that the Russians don't want to see the Syria situation unravel to a point where they have to escalate their own involvement. But at the moment, I don't see the U.S. and Russia on the same page in Syria. Russia seems much more interested in consolidating government control over liberated areas. It seems to me that the U.S. and Russia are proving they can disagree for independent reasons in any number of theaters.

  Richard N. Haass

  Independent, Thinking, Moments

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• You know what I think the guy who reviewed the live show for Pitchfork suffers from? Shy/asshole confusion. I'm not an asshole. I don't think I have to prove that to anyone, but I'm just putting that out there. I just think people should know that I'm not trying too hard. I think some people are just bitter that they ended up reviewing the show rather than playing the show, perhaps.

  Nicholas Thorburn

  Thinking, People, Confusion

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• Jesters do often prove prophets.

  Joseph Addison

  Literature, Prophet, Jester

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• The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

  Joseph Addison

  Death, People, Dying

  Joseph Addison (1721). “Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89”, p.458

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• Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Louisa May Alcott, General Press (2016). “Little Women (Illustrated Edition)”, p.120, GENERAL PRESS

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• Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dream, Moon, America

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• I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Black, World

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Looks, Ugly, Actresses

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• Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Book, Men

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 23 (Anne Eliot)

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• What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

  Erykah Badu

  Hard Work, Be Kind, Path

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• 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.

  Eric Bana

  Strong, Desire, Way

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• Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

  Roland Barthes

  Understanding, Literature, Trouble

  Roland Barthes, Richard Howard (1989). “Bruissement de la Langue”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it may prove to be the mountain-too-high for Barack Obama's campaign.

  Bob Beauprez

  America, Mountain, Campaigns

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• In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

  Claude Bernard

  Teaching, Pride, Reality

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.

  Halle Berry

  Cheerleading, Editors, Class

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• Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Character, Judging, Inquiry

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.224, 谷月社

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• 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.

  Lewis Black

  Kids, Thinking, America

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• My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

  Jo Brand

  Men, Should Have, Trying

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• There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.

  Drew Brees

  Littles, Satisfaction, Bits

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• It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

  Jeff Bridges

  Funny, Real, Laughing

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• God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

  Robert Browning

  God, Track, Justice

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Intelligent, Design

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