Top 100 Confirm Quotes
#1. When a person has lived alone for a long time, the only way to confirm that they still exist is to express activities and things in an easily shared syntax: this face, these bones that walk, this mouth, this hand that writes.
Valeria Luiselli
#2. Love invites the Holy Ghost to be present to confirm truth. And the joy of learning divine truths creates love in the hearts of people who shared the experience of learning.
Henry B. Eyring
#3. You must practice the discipline of a champion before you win the actual contest. The appointment and opportunity must then come to confirm what you have already become.
Archibald Marwizi
#4. He called me baby. I didn't look to confirm, and I was glad he didn't either, seeing as I was relatively certain my nipples were now hard.
Kristen Ashley
#5. I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
Jim Morrison
#6. Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.
Klaus Fuchs
#7. It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.
Jay Alan Sekulow
#8. Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceedin a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.
Bruno Bettelheim
#9. We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission seriously: either to accept it or reject it knowingly and with conviction.
David Novak
#10. Where I am ignorant, Lord, teach me. Where I am wrong, Lord, correct me. Where I am right, Lord, confirm me.
Albert Martin
#11. Every day some scientist discovered a new species of frog or waterlily, and that, too, seemed to confirm some divine showman, some celestial inventor putting new toys before us, hidden but hidden poorly, just where we might happen upon them.
Dave Eggers
#12. These preliminary studies then prompted hundreds of millions of dollars of studies that failed to confirm the initial hypothesis that fat or animal fat led to cancer.
Gary Taubes
#13. A woman with long, blonde hair stood for a moment on the other side of the door. She looked similar to his date. Was she entering or leaving the coffee house?
Before Paul could confirm her identity or stand and run after her, she strode away and disappeared in the crowd.
Cheryl Sterling
#14. It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
Tony Benn
#15. It was like either: (A) I was a terrible guy who was knowingly doing this rotten thing over and over, or (B) it wasn't so rotten, really, just normal, and the way to confirm it was normal was to keep doing it, over and over.
George Saunders
#16. Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.
Jimmy Savile
#17. Lawyers tried to compose a story - one of innocence or of guilt - and make it seem the only possibility, taking advantage of the conventions of the genre and of human nature, which was so eager to confirm its prejudices.
Pablo De Santis
#18. Southern newspapers hungry for fodder to roil the secession debate fed their subscribers the most inciteful material they could unearth in the Northern press. Northern journals scoured Southern papers for similarly provocative reports designed to confirm hotheaded Southern disloyalty.
Harold Holzer
#19. Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.
Charles Jencks
#20. Dalai Lama: "If a scientist confirm nonexistence of something we believe, then we have to accept that."
Dan Harris: "So if scientists come up with something that contradicts your beliefs, you will change your beliefs?"
Dalai Lama: "Oh yes. Yes.
Dan Harris
#21. I joke that if she [Debbie Wasserman Schultz] could find a 3 a.m. slot in the Home Shopping Network, she would grab that. So those emails only confirm what we knew.
Jonathan Tasini
#22. I'd like to show you who's the boss, but I'm afraid it would only
confirm that you are.
Jane Seabrook
#23. Having actually read the Voltaire in question, I can confirm the quote is, as different from ours as the breed of spaniels is from that of greyhounds," Nicholas said coldly. "Interesting, though, that in the end we're all just dogs.
Alexandra Bracken
#24. Twitter does not allow others to understand your deep thoughts and broad perspective. It only allows others to confirm how stupid they already think you are.
Nicholas Epley
#25. We don't want to confirm or deny the Holocaust. We oppose every type of crime against any people. But we want to know whether this crime actually took place or not.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#26. Sources also confirm that there is no one left in Canada who can remember when hockey was a simple game, played for fun.
Roy MacGregor
#27. Symbols," Langdon said, "in no way confirm the presence of their original creators.
Dan Brown
#28. Sophie," he chastises. "You were looking down at my dick and laughing." "I didn't laugh," I correct him. "Fine, then you were smiling at him like the two of you were sharing some inside joke. Everything good between the two of you?" "Very much so," I confirm.
Kendall Ryan
#29. Miracles, or those extraordinary manifestations of the power of god, are not for the unbeliever; they are to console the Saints, and to strengthen and confirm the faith of those who love, fear, and serve God.
Brigham Young
#30. The problem with insight, sensitivity, and intuition is that they tend to confirm our biases.
Naomi Weisstein
#31. My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it.
Ron Wyden
#32. If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.
Erica Jong
#33. My soul absorbs you, my mind inhales your essence, you confirm my life.
Al Cash
#34. A slouching posture tends to suggest a certain laziness of character as well as a lack of interest in others. Whereas an upright position can confirm a sense of self-possession and a quality of engagement.
Amor Towles
#35. Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days.
William Tyndale
#36. Tailing someone is like maintaining a relationship: you keep at it until they give you the slip, or until they confirm everything you suspect them of.
Mark Crutchfield
#37. Earlier in my career, I never thought of boxing as a chess game, but I confirm that they are, in fact, very similar. You can plan your fights and strategy just like you would in chess.
Wladimir Klitschko
#38. Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it.
Italo Calvino
#39. 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
#40. You're in deep with me, aren't you, baby?"
I whispered my question just to confirm.
"Drowning." he whispered back.
Kristen Ashley
#41. This guy [Tyson Fury] really wants to prove himself in the ring and confirm what he keeps telling everyone, that he's the best in the world.
Wladimir Klitschko
#42. We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life.
Ann Druyan
#44. Love. Sometimes it's not what you say. It's what you do and how you make one feel without the use of words. Sometimes words confirm your actions and cause a reaction without the use words.
Carla Gipson Lizana
#45. It's a waste of time to think about things you can't know, and things you can't confirm even if you know them.
Haruki Murakami
#46. My observation continues to confirm me more and more in the opinion, that to experience religion is to experience the truth of the great doctrines of Divine grace.
Ichabod Spencer
#47. Faith's premises are felt to be so valuable that they deserve the best intellectual reflection possible to confirm argumentatively what faith already knows inwardly
Thomas C. Oden
#48. Chase asks her what time the appointment is booked for. Rachel says, "It's at 11:30 or midnight. He's supposed to call to confirm." She checks her cell. "But I want to be there early." she says.
"Why?"
"Just to be on the safe side."
"There isn't one, Rachel.
Joe McGinniss Jr.
#49. Without a need to constantly remain attached to ideas and beliefs, the clarity of your formless form recognizes the truth of itself - with nothing to confirm or ever deny.
Matthew Kahn
#50. Of course, you won't confirm or deny it, which means I'm probably right, since if I was wrong, you'd be gloating about it.
Keith R.A. DeCandido
#51. I can neither confirm nor deny details of any such operation without Secretary's approval
William Brandt
#52. Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs
Albert Bandura
#53. Prophecies do not alter fate, only confirm it.
Bette Lord
#54. Sometimes distortions can speak the truth. They confirm for me what is real by troubling me with something false.
Jeffrey Overstreet
#55. Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.)
Charles Krauthammer
#56. So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.
Michael Polanyi
#57. The more we are in the Word of God, the more the Spirit who inspired the Word and who illumines it for us will use the Word to confirm in our souls that we are truly His, that we are indeed among the children of God.
R.C. Sproul
#58. Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card.
Ron Lewis
#59. Facts - all facts - explain and confirm each other. They are only partially true until you link them together.
Willa Gibbs
#60. Only man can be an enemy for man; only he can rob him of the meaning of his acts and his life because it also belongs only to him alone to confirm it in its existence, to recognize it in actual fact as a freedom
Simone De Beauvoir
#61. Most people don't really want the truth. They're just looking for answers that confirm their prejudices.
Jim Wilhelmsen
#62. When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work to confirm your worst suspicions. Or think of things you could never have imagined! There are only so many hours of the day to hate yourself.
Emma Forrest
#63. I'd like to see a ghost. It would confirm there's an afterlife.
Marlon Wayans
#64. We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.
Alistair Begg
#65. A woman has been chosen. The gift of heaven on earth. This will become the biggest story in the world. Coldwater, Michigan. Ask a man of God. One call will confirm everything.
Mitch Albom
#66. The military said we'll be able to confirm Saddam is dead with DNA testing. Apparently we have a sample of his DNA. So Monica Lewinsky is working for the CIA?
Jay Leno
#67. Rising and falling of the sun confirm Your kingship and Your rulership.
Euginia Herlihy
#68. Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.
Jonathan Swift
#70. I realized ... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing ...
Beverly Pepper
#71. A couple of websites I've come across credit the 'New York Times' for reporting that 12,000 women a year are arrested for breastfeeding in public. I could not confirm that number with a quick search, but even 1,200 would be too many - or even 12.
David Horsey
#72. I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.
Eli Broad
#73. The mind's properties, the character, feelings, thoughts. The soul. Which would confirm what most sorcerers and all priests would deny. That the soul is also matter.' 'Blasphemy!
Andrzej Sapkowski
#74. The smartest things you can do is talk to someone who has done a similar project before and confirm what those steps are. Perhaps
Kate White
#75. Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
Galileo Galilei
#76. At times,
trust is bound to be broken,
promises are bound not to be kept,
hearts are bound to be hurt,
mistakes are bound to be make.
You are also bound to meet a person at their worst in order for you to confirm that you want to be part of their lives.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#77. The problem is that conventional questioning and research techniques are designed to confirm known knowns and reduce uncertainty.
Chris Voss
#78. Say 'Synchronize watches', Motti." Con batted her eyelids. "You know I love it when you say 'Synchronize watches'." Motti glowered at Con, put on a bad falsetto French accent: "Would everyone kindly confirm their watch is telling the same time as their neighbour's watch, yes?
Stephen Cole
#79. We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.
John Calvin
#80. That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#81. My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
Joe Biden
#82. Hi, she said, in a whispery voice, and nodded as if to confirm that she really meant it.
Aleksandar Hemon
#83. Every time, she spelled it "hoo." He said it ruined everything. (NOTE: We did confirm that this was a woman and not an owl.)
Aziz Ansari
#84. In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached.
John Strachan
#85. Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!!
Marion D. Hanks
#86. Inspectors do not have the duty or the ability to uncover terrible weapons hidden in a vast country. The responsibility of inspectors is simply to confirm evidence of voluntary and total disarmament. Saddam Hussein has the responsibility to provide that evidence, as directed, and in full
Donald Rumsfeld
#87. Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another.
Benjamin Franklin
#88. In any case how many took the oath and are now licking the toes of the whiteman?No, you take an oath to confirm a choice already made. The decision to lay or not lay your life for the people lies in the heart. The oath is the water sprinkled on a man's head at baptism
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#89. Always remember: Business is War.
At the end of the day, the one with access to the best intel wins. This
applies as much to business and politics as it does to the military. Ask
every single billionaire and military or political strategist out there.
They will all confirm that as fact.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#90. The truth. Why are we so obsessed with the truth - begging for it, asking for it, demanding it, when all we really want to do is confirm our own vision of reality?
Jorge Volpi
#91. We routinely disqualify testimony that would plead for extenuation. That is, we are so persuaded of the rightness of our judgment as to invalidate evidence that does not confirm us in it. Nothing that deserves to be called truth could ever be arrived at by such means.
Wm. Paul Young
#92. You never let the cards tell their own story; you were trying to make them confirm what you imagined you knew.
Paulo Coelho
#93. My reality is at the end of the dream. When I walk down the road of life, searching for the door that will guide me to my reality, I am merely walking to confirm there is nothing there.
Lionel Suggs
#94. Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
Umberto Eco
#95. Only when we stand in the truth and fight with it, can God Himself come and begin to confirm His Word.
Sunday Adelaja
#96. I can neither confirm nor deny you are a sneaky, sneaky bitch.
Scott Lynch
#97. Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.
William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield
#98. Sound is one of the best most powerful tools. All the ancient traditions confirm that in the beginning was the word. Sound sort of predates form.
MC Yogi
#99. Life, as he conceived of it, was a long decline from a glorious past, and if a reader approaches a newspaper in that spirit, he can find much to confirm him in his belief, particularly if he has never examined any short period of the past in day-to-day detail.
Robertson Davies
#100. In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.
Pierre Bourdieu
