Prove Quotes · Page 42

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is…

— Victor Hugo

I've always wanted to explore different types of roles and prove to others that Divyanka is not all about being a timid…

— Divyanka Tripathi

I don't make music to prove all the critics wrong. I do it to prove all my fans right.

— Kid Rock

My credibility is zero. My wife claims she can go before any judge at any time and have me committed.

— Alan Abel

I take pride in taking the hard road and prove to people I earned it.

— Jake Ellenberger

I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

— Kara Swisher

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

— Forrest Carter

If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.

— Dorothy Allison

'Idol' was more of a competition, and that was more of a platform that I wanted to get a hold of and…

— Jessica Sanchez

I'm hoping that these series, that originally aired in the 80's and 90's, prove to be as entertaining online and on portable…

— Stephen J. Cannell

To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to…

— Victor Hugo

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Any idiot can stand in front of a target," I say. "It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as…

— Veronica Roth

Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to…

— Geoff Dyer

There is a world-old controversy that crops up whenever women attempt to enter a new field. Is a woman fit for that…

— Ruth Bancroft Law

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by…

— Peter Singer

To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give…

— Savitri Devi

I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one…

— Thomas A. Edison

I beg your pardon for questioning your judgement," she said. "It is nothing to me, after all, if it proves faulty. I…

— Loretta Chase

The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information…

— Peter Drucker

Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is…

— E. B. White

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to…

— Mary Antin

I am NOT a belly dancer. I have never been one, and never will be. What I do is not what Hollywood…

— Nadia Gamel

I don't really remember the day when I stood behind my camera with Henry Kissinger on the other side. I am sure…

— Richard Avedon

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That's something that I gotta prove - I don't like being labeled as 'soft.' I'm not soft.

— Kristaps Porzingis

In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.

— Bahá'u'lláh

Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.

— Philippa Gregory

Seriously. I'm not playing to prove anything to journalists. I'm playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.

— Roger Federer

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

— Moshe Sharett

You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.

— Sonia Sotomayor

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

— Anonymous

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

— Jehane Noujaim

We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal…

— Allen W. Wood

We all want to prove ourselves in this league. We feel like we can compete with the best.

— Ja Morant

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could…

— Anonymous

Always believe in yourself when no one else does because you can prove them wrong and show them how strong you really…

— Nishan Panwar

I have never done films to prove a point to anyone; I have done them for myself.

— Tabu

I have to prove myself every game and not let myself be distracted by rumours.

— Antonio Rudiger

Not one death but many, not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is the law

— Charles Olson