Proves Quotes
460 Proves quotes by 386 unique authors
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Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that…
— Yasmina Khadra
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The relative success of the bitcoin proves that money first and foremost depends on trust. Neither gold nor bonds are needed to back up a…
— Arnon Grunberg
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Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.
— Norah O'Donnell
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The Secret Life of Bees proves that a family can be found where you least expect it-maybe not under your own roof, but in that…
— Luanne Rice
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A journey does not need reasons. Before long, it proves to be reason enough in itself. One thinks that one is going to make a…
— Nicolas Bouvier
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I was married once--in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's…
— W.C. Fields
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All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of…
— Blaise Pascal
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I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by…
— Shirley Chisholm
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What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent…
— Eugene V. Debs
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In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes away…
— Thucydides
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The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.
— Charles Hodge
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This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.
— Brian Tracy
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Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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What's curious about the left's current obsession with Timothy McVeigh is that it proves that - despite a frantic search for 15 years - liberals…
— Ann Coulter
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The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from…
— Alfred Kinsey
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The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, 'The signs of a hypocrite are three: 1. Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie. 2. Whenever he…
— Abu Hurairah
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Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.
— Roxane Gay
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Peter, in showing that the Church is one and that only those who are in the Church can be saved, said: "In the Ark of…
— Cyprian
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The weave of the personal and the political finally proves as irresistible as it is moving, partly because it has been drawn from extraordinary life.
— Manohla Dargis
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Brendan O’Meara’s Six Weeks in Saratoga is a victory to be savored by those who treasure good writing in general and tales of the track…
— Madeleine Blais
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That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting…
— Lydia M. Child
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The record proves that in peaceful commerce the combined efforts of our countries can produce outstanding results. Our trade with each other is far greater…
— Harry S. Truman
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The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor…
— Andrew Johnson
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