Prove Quotes - Page 38

• 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.

  Heather Brewer

  Home, School, Aunt

  Heather Brewer (2007). “The chronicles of Vladimir Tod: eighth grade bites”

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• And while my mind is telling me I'm flirting with her just to prove a point, my body wants to play "you show me your perky privates and I'll show you mine.

  Simone Elkeles

  Flirting, Play, Mind

  Simone Elkeles (2010). “Rules of Attraction”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Long, Devil, Negative

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2010). “Bullet: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.119, Penguin

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• Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Real, Writing, Stories

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• Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.

  Margaret Cho

  Believe, Abortion, Death Penalty

  Margaret Cho (2006). “I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

  John Green

  Encounters, Truth Is, Should

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• She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that her mother had indeed been a fool and her father had been a damned fool and that she was the damnedest fool of them all.

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Father, Might

  Julia Quinn (2010). “Ten Things I Love About You”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Art, Soul, Never Let Me Go

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.238, Faber & Faber

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• 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.

  P. C. Cast

  Food, Nachos, Doritos

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.124, Macmillan

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• There’s only one question that matters, Ms. Lane, and it’s the one you never get around to asking. People are capable of varying degrees of truth. The majority spend their entire lives fabricating an elaborate skein of lies, immersing themselves in the faith of bad faith, doing whatever it takes to feel safe. The person who truly lives has precious few moments of safety, learns to thrive in any kind of storm. It’s the truth you can stare down stone-cold that makes you what you are. Weak or strong. Live or die. Prove yourself. How much truth can you take, Ms. Lane?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Strong, Lying, People

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.864, Dell

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• By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Truth Is, Made, Manifest

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• History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Obscenity, Advertisements

  Holbrook Jackson (1932). “The Fear of Books”, p.34, University of Illinois Press

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• Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Expression, Feelings

  Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.233, BookBaby

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• It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes my choice and, more important, in no time proves too small for them and forces me to change my arrangement. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. Like Nature, libraries abhor a vacuum, and the problem of space is inherent in the very nature of any collection of books.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Space, Long

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.65, Vintage Canada

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• The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Cutting, Men, Glowing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.70, Random House

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• The flash would prove that proton decay really happens. The flash would mean that the matter of the proton - the solid stuff - had turned into the energy of the flash (E-mc2). Totally. Nothing left behind. No ash. No smoke. No smell. Nada. One moment it's there, the next moment - pffft - gone. What would it mean? Only this: Nothing lasts. Nothing. Because everything that exists is made of protons.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Mean, Smell, Energy

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• What was Dionysus going to go? Send him back to his hellish isolation? He’d been there, done that, and had the Ozzy T-shirt to prove it.’ (Styxx)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Done, Isolation, T Shirt

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.447, Macmillan

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• ...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in

  Romain Gary

  Way, Faces, Normal

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• Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love Is, Giving, Joy

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Poems On Love”

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• I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public display of privates. What is it for? What purposes of reassurance does it serve? The flashing of a badge, look, everyone, all is in order, I belong here. Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women? Some form of unbuttoning, some split-crotch routine, just as casual. A doglike sniffing.

  Margaret Atwood

  Men, Order, Doe

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• You don't have to make things harder then they have to be just to prove a point.

  Sarah Dessen

  Harder

  "Lock and Key". Book by Sarah Dessen, April 22, 2008.

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• 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.

  John Donne

  Love, Cute, Anniversary

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Bait'

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• At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Decision, Quests, Obscure

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• a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block" -Nyah

  Paulo Coelho

  Block, Real, Men

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• Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Craftsman, Dens

  Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.63, Macmillan

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