Prove Quotes - Page 32

• I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

  Howard Stern

  Inspirational, Success, Self Esteem

  "Howard Stern and the Satellite Wars". Interview with Ana Marie Cox, www.wired.com. March 01, 2005.

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• The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

  Wallace Stevens

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Poet

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.56, Vintage

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• I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Winning, Hands, Political

  "Adlai Stevenson: A Study in Values". Book by Herbert Joseph Muller, p. 174, 1967.

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• It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

  Taylor Swift

  People, Alternatives, Easier

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• Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, God, Dust

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.10, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.

  Marlo Thomas

  Mother, Strong, Kids

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• 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.

  Leon Trotsky

  Lasts, England, Revolutionary

  Leon Trotsky (1974). “Collected Writings and Speeches on Britain”

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• The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Waiting, Challenges, Rewards

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• I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

  Jesse Ventura

  Successful, Thinking, Government

  "Interview: Jesse Ventura biography". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

  Voltaire

  Men, Garden, Eden

  "Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories".

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• The biggest thing is to make sure that when something comes out about you that is false that you prove it's not true.

  Dwyane Wade

  Prove It

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• My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.

  Lech Walesa

  Country, Opportunity, Peaceful

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• Are you ready to fight for good jobs and and a solid level playing field? Are you ready to prove to another generation of Americans that we can build a better country and a newer world? Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is ready. I am ready. You're ready.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Country, Jobs, Fighting

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• 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.

  Ethel Waters

  White, Gloves, Spades

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• I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

  Jody Watley

  Writing, Ideas, Singing

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• The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place.

  Johnny Weir

  Writing, Community, Skating

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• I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

  Orson Welles

  Trying, Mature, Irresponsible

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• God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.

  Ellen G. White

  Heart, Littles, Tests

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• Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.

  Ellen G. White

  True Happiness, Fountain, Guides

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV”, p.796, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.

  Ellen G. White

  Taken, Soul, Ruins

  Ellen G. White (1994*). “Spiritual Gifts Vol 1 & 2”, p.264, Review and Herald Pub Assoc

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• The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.

  Ron White

  Smart, School, Mean

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• I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

  Walt Whitman

  Art, School, Past

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.365, NYU Press

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• Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

  E. O. Wilson

  Real, Looks, Research

  "E.O. Wilson Is on Top of the World". Interview with Jill Neimark, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1998.

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• Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Leader, Victory, Wish

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• 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.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Trying, Roles

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