Proof Quotes - Page 6

• Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Broken, Silence

  "Fictional character: Elinor Dashwood". "Sense and Sensibility", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.

  Stephen Dunn

  Alive, Said

  Stephen Dunn (2006). “The Insistence of Beauty: Poems”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Scars are proof we can can survive

  Megan Hart

  Scar

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• The Chancellor looked down at the empty table for a minute. Then he shrugged, looked up, and gave a surprisingly jaunty smile. "All in favor of admitting first-term Kvothe's reckless use of sympathy as proof of mastery of basic principles of sympathy vote by show of hands.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Hands, Principles, Mastery

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• Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Crush, Heart, Men

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• I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are

  Taylor Swift

  Heartbreak, Thinking, Swings

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• Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told him. "Every one of whom?" "Every one of whom do you think?" "I haven't any idea." "Then how do you know they aren't?" "Because..." Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration. Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all.

  Joseph Heller

  Thinking, Frustration, Ideas

  "Catch-22". Book by Joseph Heller, ch. 2, p. 24, 1961.

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• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Fear, Writing, Men

  YouTube Chanel "KD"/ "Edward R. Murrow: 'A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy'", www.youtube.com. November 10, 2014.

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• ...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

  Julia Child

  Theory

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• I heard Tammy say you could be charming. I haven't seen any proof yet." Oh, his cat like that. "I thought I was very charming when I petted you into orgasm." He shot her a look filled with sexual heat. "I plan to do more of that - right after I teach you about keeping secrets.

  Nalini Singh

  Cat, Keeping Secrets, Looks

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• ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.

  Aeschylus

  Party, Men, Two Sides

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• And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks

  Tom Robbins

  Sublime, Tasks, Goes On

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• Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  Doubt, Belief, Absence

  Rosemary Clement-Moore (2008). “Hell Week”, p.144, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Moving, Speak

  Marilynne Robinson (2015). “Housekeeping”, p.49, Faber & Faber

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• Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!

  Patricia Polacco

  Creativity, Practice, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Patricia Polacco from Mar 24, 2014

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• I’m trying to embroider.” Hyacinth held up her handiwork as proof. “You’re trying to avoid—” Her mother stopped, blinking. “I say, why does that flower have an ear?” “It’s not an ear.” Hyacinth looked down. “And it’s not a flower.” “Wasn’t it a flower yesterday?” “I have a very creative mind,” Hyacinth ground out, giving the blasted flower another ear. “That,” Violet said, “has never been in any doubt.” Hyacinth looked down at the mess on the fabric. “It’s a tabby cat,” she announced. “I just need to give it a tail.

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Flower, Cat

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• It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.

  Haruki Murakami

  Alive, Taste, Kind

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• I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal is your ability to manipulate your own common sense to accept something your intellect rejects. It's the same model of intellectual submission that dictatorships have used throughout time, the concept of a higher reasoning without any obligation to discharge the burden of proof.

  Jo Nesbo

  Burden Of Proof, Common Sense, Heaven

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• The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Exercise, Self, Tyrants

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.284, Image

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• I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed

  Algernon Blackwood

  Reality, Standards, Changed

  Algernon Blackwood (2014). “Delphi Complete Novels of Algernon Blackwood (Illustrated)”, p.2910, Delphi Classics

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• Present company excluded, this looked to be the most pleasant detention ever experienced by mankind. Further proof that librarians should run the world-or a least be in charge of detention at Bathory High.

  Heather Brewer

  Running, World, Librarian

  Heather Brewer (2009). “Tenth Grade Bleeds #3: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.90, Penguin

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• Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

  Daniel Goleman

  Self, Feelings, Perception

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.434, Bantam

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• What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Heart, Knowing

  "Fictional character: Elinor Dashwood". "Sense and Sensibility", 1995.

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• I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.

  Milan Kundera

  Self, Feelings, Suffering

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