Prove Quotes - Page 37

• Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Eye, Simple, Mirrors

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• So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God.

  Yann Martel

  Animal, Differences, Interesting

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• It's a stark thought that when we die most of us will leave behind uneaten biscuits, unused coffee, half toilet rolls, half cartons of milk in the fridge to go sour; that everyday functional things will outlive us and prove that we weren't ready to go; that we weren't smart or knowing or heroic; that we were just animals whose animal bodies stopped working without any sort of schedule or any consent from us.

  Steven Hall

  Smart, Coffee, Animal

  Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.18, Canongate Books

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• I saw a spider, I didn't scream 'Cause I can belch the alphabet Just double dog dare me And I chose guitar over ballet
  And I tape these suckers down 'Cause they just get in my way The way you look at me Is kind of like a little sister
  You high five your goodbyes And it leaves me nothing but blisters So I don't want to be one of the boys.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Goodbye, Dog

  "Song: "One of the Boys"". June 17, 2008.

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• 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.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Real, Men, Dreamer

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.135, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

  Orson Scott Card

  Stupid, Beans, Sentences

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.113, Macmillan

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• Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sad, Sorrow, Vibrations

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• I don't see what's so good about being genuine. Clog dancing is genuine. Isn't being fake more of an achievement? At least it takes some inspiration. Like, sherbet dips, they're a special food. Think of all the additives and coloring and grinding that it takes to create a sherbet dip. But carrots? They're just out there, shrieking, "Hi, we're some carrots! Love us for it!" They never have to prove themselves.

  Emma Forrest

  Inspiration, Thinking, Dancing

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• In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Men, Soul, Economy

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2007). “Field O' My Dreams: The Poetry of Gene Stratton-Porter”

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• At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

  George Packer

  Disappointment, Fear, Heart

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• My people never dreamed of a world like this. Of having so much without backbreaking, debilitating work. And yet for all the physical improvements, people are still people. They’re killing each other to get more to prove a point only the killer understands. Still brutalizing and torturing each other over things that in another hundred years won’t even matter.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Years, People, World

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• 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)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fighting, Reflection, Wrens

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• A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.

  Tawni O'Dell

  Men, Trying, Whole Life

  Tawni O'Dell (2007). “Sister Mine: A Novel”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• See?" Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. "Inigo is beaten." Inconceivable!" exploded the Sicilian. Fezzik never dared disagree with the hunchback. "I'm so stupid," Fezzik nodded. "Inigo has not lost to the man in black, he has defeated him. And to prove it he has put on all the man in black's clothes and masks and hoods and boots and gained eighty pounds.

  William Goldman

  Running, Stupid, Men

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.100, A&C Black

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• My son has few friends and even fewer who know him for what he is. So long as you protect him, you live. Sumerian or not. But if you prove false in anything you’ve said here today, I will bring a wrath down on you so sever that you will spend eternity trying to dig out your own brains to alleviate the pain of it. (Apollymi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Son, Wrath

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.62, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Nalini Singh

  Silly, Honor, Might

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.78, Penguin

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• Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing the weak is evil weakness. Accomplishing your ends without killing, mastering your mind when you want to kill--that is strength!

  Victoria Hanley

  Strong, Evil, Mind

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• The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by it to the level, moral, intelletual and political, of its most worthless class.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Class, Ideas, Envy

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.5085, Delphi Classics

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• It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.

  Forrest Carter

  Men, Enemy, Want

  Forrest Carter (1989). “Josey Wales: Two Westerns : Gone to Texas; The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales”, p.64, UNM Press

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• Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Tests, Vain, Stunning

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• They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.

  Tami Hoag

  Moving, Matter, Left

  Tami Hoag (2004). “Kill the Messenger”, p.397, Bantam

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• 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.

  David Foster Wallace

  Philosophy, Use, Four

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• I beg your pardon for questioning your judgement," she said. "It is nothing to me, after all, if it proves faulty. I am not the one responsible for the Marquess of Atherton's heir and sole offspring. I am not the one who will be toppled from my pedestal if the world learns I have not only permitted but encouraged my nephew to associate with the most shocking persons. I am not the one who-" "I wish you were the one who had heard of the rule Silence is Golden," he said.

  Loretta Chase

  Silence, Judgement, Nephew

  Loretta Chase (2015). “Lord Perfect: Number 3 in series”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Sarah Dessen

  Cupcakes, Want, Yeah

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.99, Penguin

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• Your stockings prove your virtues. Be certain they are clean and free of tears.

  Emilie Autumn

  Tears, Virtue, Clean

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