Prove Quotes - Page 29

• Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

  Khalil Gibran

  Faith, Powerful, Forever

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• I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.

  Billy Graham

  Believe, Prove It, I Can

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• Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

  Richard E. Grant

  Challenges, Ongoing, Fields

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• Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

  Alan Greenspan

  Cutting, Thinking, Views

  "Bush tax cuts - a decider for the midterms?". www.nbcnews.com. August 2, 2010.

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• 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.

  Alan Greenspan

  Believe, Facts, Merit

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• That's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves.

  Robert Griffin III

  Goal, Trying, Talent

  "Robert Griffin III refuses to be defined by race" by Jim Corbett, www.usatoday.com. December 12, 2012.

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• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Wisdom, Self, Doubt

  The Blithedale Romance ch. 2 (1852)

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• A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Great Day, Useless, Examination

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.152, tredition

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• Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.

  Damien Hirst

  Cards, Credit, Hitting

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• Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Jesus, Father, Teaching

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• There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Men, World, Determined

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• I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Needs, Done, Can Do

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• Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

  William Ralph Inge

  Expectations, Choices, Certain

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Labels & Libels”

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• I empathize with women in their high heels so I'll be there in my kilt and T-shirt and I'll walk around all day just to prove that if I can wear the shoes for 36 hours then certainly our customer can wear them.

  Marc Jacobs

  Funny, High Heels, Shoes

  "Exclusive Q&A with Marc Jacobs". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. August 10, 2010.

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• I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Firsts, Facts, Certain

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.

  Penn Jillette

  Real, Opposites, Action

  "Commentary: Is Obama skidding or crashing?" by Penn Jillette, www.cnn.com. April 1, 2009.

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• World War II proves there's no God.

  Penn Jillette

  War, World, War Of The Worlds

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Money, Years, Two

  Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Samuel Butler ...”, p.278

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• I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

  Erica Jong

  Men, Identity, Needs

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• In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

  Franz Kafka

  Love, Song, Argument

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• When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.

  Michio Kaku

  Falling In Love, Simplicity, Paper

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• Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

  Jack Kemp

  People, Awakening, Kind

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• I don't really have much to prove. I can easily go in a comfort zone, make two films a year, hype them because I've signed them as a star, make them cheap and they will be big hits.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Stars, Years, Two

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• I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Bores You, Boredom

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Loyalty, Next, Yeah

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