Prove It Quotes - Page 9

• In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wine, Order, Water

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.39

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• You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

  Barry Levinson

  Certain, Happens, Things Happen

  Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Mean, Patents, Doe

  "May the Source Be With You". Wired, December 9, 2001.

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• We are more than we imagine ourselves to be. It's what we tell our children, our parents, our friends. But how often do we tell it to ourselves? And if we do, how often do we prove it? How often do we challenge ourselves to do something new?

  Veronica Chambers

  Children, Parent, Challenges

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• I feel like I'm one of the best strikers in MMA. I just need the time to prove it. You haven't really seen my full potential yet.

  Anthony Pettis

  Mma, Full Potential, Needs

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• The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Expression, Sublime

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• We have learned that the things we amassed to prove to ourselves how valuable, how important, how successful we were, didn't prove it at all. In fact, they have very little to do with it. It's what's inside of us, not what's outside of us that counts.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Successful, Important, Littles

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• Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

  Rebecca West

  Music, Tragedy, Sound

  Rebecca West (2010). “Family Memories: An Autobiographical Journey”, p.171, Open Road Media

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• The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Military, Character, Israel

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• I know some good old gals in their 50s and 60s. All these women tell me, 'Forty to 50. Those are the hot times.' So far, you couldn't prove it by me. But hell, I'm only two years in.

  Lauren Hutton

  Years, Two, Hot

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• Have you ever felt love?
  Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and scientifically proved your love existed? If you could not prove it, would that mean your love didn't exist? What would you trust: your own feelings, or science?

  Derrick Jensen

  Love, Trust, Mean

  Derrick Jensen (2011). “Dreams”, p.386, Seven Stories Press

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• God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

  Andre Weil

  Math, Devil, Existence

  "Mathematical Circles Adieu: A Fourth Collection of Mathematical Stories and Anecdotes". Book by Howard Whitley Eves, 1977.

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• Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Philosophy, Science

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.55, Knopf

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• We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Equality, Humanity

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.290, Penguin

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• It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Life, Happiness, Enough

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.108, ICS Publications

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• Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

  John Stark

  Military, Sleep, Patriotic

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• If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Talking, Prove, Ifs

  ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (1961). “STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND”

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• So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No," I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely." At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Possible And Impossible, Flying, Way

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

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• ...God's love is so real that He created you to prove it.

  Nick Vujicic

  Real, Love Is, God's Love

  Twitter post from Jan 10, 2016

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• It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.

  Henri Poincare

  Truth, Knowledge, Science

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• I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.

  Bobby Fischer

  Player, Chess Game, World

  "Chess Digest Magazine", Volume 4, 1971.

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• For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.

  Tim Cook

  Graduation, Passion, Decision

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• Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants.  An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mean, Expectations, Pants

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• To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

  Nelson Algren

  Book, Writing, Guilty

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• The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.

  George Whitefield

  Fall, Character, Men

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.33

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