Prove Quotes - Page 34

• Nobody's cut out for this town," Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway." "Says the kid who came back." "Yeah, kind of proves my point.

  Rachel Caine

  Kids, Cutting, Towns

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.101, Allison & Busby

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• I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.

  Taylor Kitsch

  People, Needs, Myopic

  "No Way But Up". Interview with Ari Karpel, www.menshealth.com. March 2, 2012.

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• The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often than not, she will lose her virginity to some filthy lowlife in what proves to be the first step in an irrevocable decline.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Beautiful, Girl, Cynical

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage

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• A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line.

  Mel Gibson

  Mean, Lines, Conspiracy

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• Hollis " I said "you're messing with me right now aren't you You're in Paris or somewhere and just-" "What " he replied. "No This is the real deal. Here I'll prove it." There was a muffled noise followed by some static. Then I heard my mother recite at a distance in her most droll flat tone "Yes. It is true. Your brother is in love and in my kitchen.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Brother, Real

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• [from The One and Only Official Mr. Gum Official Glossary That Tells You What Words Mean by Explaining Them Using Other Words] : Cups of tea: People in England are always drinking cups of tea. "Oh let's have a cup of tea " they say. "That will prove we are English and not American." Sometimes American people try to have cups of tea to pretend they are English but forget it We can always tell you are faking it

  Andy Stanton

  Drinking, Mean, People

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• You know you're smarter than all of them, right?" Hale said flatly. "In fact, if you wanted to PROVE it..." He glanced at the blackjack tables. Simon shook his head. "I don't count cards, Hale." "Don't?" Hale smiled. "Or won't? You know, technically, it's not illegal." "But it's frowned upon." Sweat beaded at Simon's brow. He sounded like someone had just suggested he swim after eating... run with scissors... "It is SERIOUSLY frowned upon.

  Ally Carter

  Running, Sweat, Swim

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Ideas, Maintaining, Ifs

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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• Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Promise, Youth

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.431

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• Faith is believing what we cannot prove.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Believe, Proof

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• Jesters do oft prove prophets.

  William Shakespeare

  Prophet, Proof, Jester

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2426, Oxford University Press

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• Little friends may prove great friends.

  Aesop

  Life, Friendship, May

  Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.50, Penguin

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• To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Yesterday, Misunderstood, Today

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.92, 谷月社

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• What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Money, Way

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• When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Want, Facts, Proof

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.254, Open Road Media

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• Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then the doors are open; then you are invited. As a knower, nobody enters the divine; as a child, ignorant, not knowing at all- the mystery embraces you. With a knowing mind you are clever, not innocent. Innocence is the door.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Children, Clever

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• If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Reality, Yesterday, History

  "Six Characters In Search of an Author".

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• Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Liberty, Slavery

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• Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Respect, Promise, Made

  "De Officiis".

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• The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focused on results. Results are outside the person, in society and economy, or in the advancement of knowledge itself. To accomplish anything this knowledge has to be highly specialized.

  Peter Drucker

  Mean, Focus, Information

  "Post-Capitalist Society".

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• We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

  Harriet Martineau

  Believe, Trying, Helping

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• We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

  Eric Hoffer

  Change, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• By unlinking your money motivation from anger, fear, and the need to prove yourself, you can install new links for earning your money through purpose, contribution, and joy.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivational, Money, Fear

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Jan 28, 2014

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• The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we wish it. Events may prove otherwise; and if they see their interest in separating why should we take sides? God bless them both, and keep them in union if it be for their good, but separate them if it be better.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Son, Thinking, Wish

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.512

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