Proved Quotes
700 Proved quotes by 566 unique authors
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Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be
— Elizabeth I
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For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.
— John Keats
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I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!
— Charles M. Schulz
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He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at least.…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
— Louisa May Alcott
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Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've…
— Sergei Lukyanenko
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Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to…
— Brandon Mull
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Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his…
— Margaret Atwood
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If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make…
— Theodore Dalrymple
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As if being a former vampire drone in a werewolf household were not shocking enough, the maid then opened her mouth and proved that she…
— Gail Carriger
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Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and…
— Franz Kafka
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
— Evelyn Waugh
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Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us…
— George Orwell
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I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took…
— Joseph Conrad
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Today’s events are reminiscent of the Old Testament story of how the Israelites demanded a king over God’s objection. They believed that a king would…
— Ron Paul
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It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them…
— Michael Faraday
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I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but I sense so…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.
— Tim Minchin
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Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have…
— Jack Gantos
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You proved to be worthy of my devotion. Of Death’s...love
— Abbi Glines
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My beautiful soul,"he murmured and caressed my cheek."When you have the ultimate selfless sacrifice it paid my wrong.You proved to be worthy of my devotion.Of…
— Abbi Glines
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JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that…
— Oscar Wilde
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He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he…
— Brandon Sanderson
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