Confirmed Quotes

201 quotes by 188 authors

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also… — Edward Abbey
Connection is why we're here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The power that connection holds in our lives was confirmed… — BrenÃ© Brown
Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a word, he understood… — R A Salvatore
Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's… — George Santayana
For authority proceeds from true reason, but reason certainly does not proceed from authority. For every authority which is not upheld by true reason is… — Johannes Scotus Eriugena
As my good friend Al Capp told me a few years ago, the best thing to do with a confirmed [hotel] reservation slip when you… — Art Buchwald
True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where… — William Hazlitt
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue… — Joseph Addison
The Declaration on Strategic Partnership between India and Russia signed in October 2000 became a truly historic step. The developments in the first decade of… — Vladimir Putin
I was raised Catholic, and then I kind of wandered away somewhere in high-school. I never got confirmed, which is a big deal. — Mike Birbiglia
In early 2008, it was confirmed that there would be an opportunity to build applications for the iPhone. We were fortunate enough to make the… — Jeremy Stoppelman
I remember the first time I read Freud, I was 25 or 30, and I was expecting it to be about the Oedipus complex. But… — Arnaud Desplechin
I am profoundly grateful that all of my life I have had a simple faith that Jesus is the Christ. That witness has been confirmed… — James E. Faust
When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy;… — Billy Graham
If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes… — Mahavira
The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went beyond the Brotherhood… — Wadah Khanfar
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have… — William Temple
I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is… — Stephen Breyer
Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she… — Kenneth Rexroth
We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction of… — Pieter Zeeman

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