Confirmation Quotes

• I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Diversity, Culture

  "God and the State" (1871)

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• In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

  Voltaire

  Gossip, Waiting, News

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• Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.

  Etty Hillesum

  Love, Real, Farewell

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• Believe and be confirmed.

  John Milton

  Believe

  JOHN MILTON (2008). “Paradise Lost (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.333, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed.

  Mario Monti

  Europe, Government, Way

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• For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

  Wernher von Braun

  Mother, Boys, Technology

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• Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

  Zell Miller

  Prayer, Praying, Process

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• I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

  Pat Robertson

  Thinking, America, Judging

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• The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq.

  Spencer Bachus

  Iraq, Three, Movement

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• Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

  James MacDonald

  God, Faith, Christian

  Twitter post from Aug 02, 2016

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• When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

  Elena Kagan

  Meaningful, Air, Issues

  "Panel on Obama's Nomination of Elena Kagan to Replace Justice Stevens on Supreme Court". "Special Report With Bret Baier", www.foxnews.com. May 10, 2010.

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• Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Strong, Light

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 323

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• To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright

  Bill Bryson

  Sensual, Purpose, Mouths

  Bill Bryson (2000). “The Complete Notes”, Random House

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• I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Believe, Reality, Persons

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• When we ask for advice, we're really looking for confirmation of what our soul already knows.

  Suzanne Giesemann

  Advice, Soul, Coaching

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• Throughout my professional life, I have looked upon the Corps as a most valuable part of our naval organization, and this opinion has only been the more confirmed by every year's additional experience in active service.

  Samuel Francis Du Pont

  Life, Military, Marine

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• My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy.

  Ron Paul

  Mean, Government, Views

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• If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favor of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.

  Karl Popper

  Pet, Looks, Favors

  Karl Popper (2013). “The Poverty of Historicism”, p.124, Routledge

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• Two years ago I was on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to my close friend, the writer Liu Xiaobo, who is imprisoned in China. To me it was confirmation that universal values and a moral code do exist, and that the point of the Nobel Prize is to encourage writers to stand up for this moral code. Last Thursday I was once again on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Prize for Literature had gone to Mo Yan. He is a state poet. I am utterly bewildered. Do these universal values not exist after all?

  Liao Yiwu

  Literature, Moral, Close Friends

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

  Oscar Wilde

  Numbers, Envious, Capability

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• When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Religious, Strong

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• When God puts something in your heart and deep down you know it’s a destiny moment, don’t wait for ten confirmations. Do what God is asking you to do now.

  Joel Osteen

  Heart, Destiny, Waiting

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• I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Views, Challenges

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• I had the privilege of chairing Judge Samuel Alito confirmation hearing in 1990. And at that time, he had practiced law for 14 years, but only represented one client, the United States government.

  Edward Kennedy

  Government, Years, Law

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves

  Cesare Pavese

  Echoes, Ideas, Pages

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.146, Routledge

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