Prove Quotes · Page 97

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt…

— Alexander Pope

The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss…

— Alexander Haig

[Golfers] are a special kind of moral relist who nips the normal romantic and idealstic yearnings in the bud by proving once…

— Alistair Cooke

If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose,…

— Orson Scott Card

I have nothing to prove, because I am already approved.

— Steven Furtick

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to…

— Peter De Vries

As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little…

— Mariella Frostrup

I think the biggest challenge was being aware of a certain audience that was going to see this film [lone survivor]. There's…

— Peter Berg

Each one of us has his own place in the industry. I've been able to prove that you don't necessarily have to…

— Akshay Kumar

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Science probes; it does not prove.

— Gregory Bateson

Every time I dance, I'm trying to prove myself to myself.

— Misty Copeland

God ordains opposition so that he may prove to the opponents, who are many in number, to the few that God chooses…

— Louis Farrakhan

Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole... He just has a different OS.

— Guy Kawasaki

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't…

— Benjamin Hoff

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

— Marilyn Monroe

The Chicago Special Olympics prove a very fundamental fact, the fact that exceptional children - children with mental retardation - can be…

— Eunice Kennedy Shriver

NDCC is an admirable job of amassing information to prove that communism is socialism and socialism (a plot to enslave the world)…

— Dan Smoot

To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those…

— Aldous Huxley

People only know what you tell them.And it was true.People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a…

— Martina Cole

I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no…

— Tom Peters

X-rays will prove to be a hoax.

— Anonymous

Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb.

— Juan Trippe

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The River adapts itself to whatever route prove possible, but the river never forgets its one objective: the sea. So fragile at…

— Paulo Coelho

Part of me was always trying to prove that I belonged and prove that I deserved the job and prove that I…

— Joe Buck

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

— Blaise Pascal

Atheists anger doesn't prove that we're selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice.…

— Greta Christina

If a proposal doesn't prove out as expected when we run it, sometimes we change the model.

— Edgar Fiedler

In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors.

— Keiynan Lonsdale

I've been going long enough to prove what I wanted to prove, to get the girl I wanted to get, to make…

— Joe Perry

I've got nothing to prove. I've already proven to everybody that I'm untouchable.

— Neville

The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own…

— Ani DiFranco

We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end…

— Midge Decter

Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs…

— Alois Podhajsky

It seemed to Alabama that, reaching her goal, she would drive the devils that had driven her - that, in proving herself,…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

At times God's best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will…

— Neal A. Maxwell

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and…

— J. M. Coetzee

the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

— Sarah Orne Jewett