Top 100 Confirm'd Quotes
#1. A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.
William Shakespeare
#2. ... the universe ... sets out little signposts for us along the way, to confirm that we're on the right path. (p.XV)
Michelle Maisto
#3. I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.
Gerald R. Ford
#4. It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.
Robert Redford
#5. When President Obama visited Japan, we were able to confirm that our alliance is playing a leading role in ensuring a peaceful and prosperous Asia-Pacific.
Shinzo Abe
#6. The Bible never encourages blind faith. God provides both rational and empirical proofs to confirm His word.
Domenic Marbaniang
#7. I want to remind all Americans that the Senate has a very important responsibility to confirm only well- qualified individuals who will faithfully interpret the law and the Constitution.
Chuck Grassley
#8. At times you need to meet a person at their worst for you to confirm that they are truelly who you love.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#9. Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
Aristotle.
#10. The looters are using Google Earth, too. They're coming in with metal detectors and geophysical equipment. Some ask me to confirm sites.
Sarah Parcak
#11. We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
Charles Lamb
#12. Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.
Anais Nin
#13. I do not often get involved in litigation, largely because it is often simply impossible to conclude with scientific certainty what caused something to break. The fact that almost every case involves opposing experts just serves to confirm this difficulty.
Mark Eberhart
#14. Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.
Abraham Lincoln
#15. Awake, my soul! Why should I give hours and days any longer to the vain world, when there is such a world of misery at my very door? Lord, put thine own strength in me; confirm every good resolution; forgive my past long life of uselessness and folly.
Andrew Bonar
#16. We should not only let our troubles confirm our dedication to God, but our prosperity should do the same.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#17. Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.
Josh McDowell
#19. While in the city and its suburbs, I fed as if in danger of imminent execution. And I was able to confirm earlier reconnaissance: Vancouver is among the best eating towns in the history of the Winter Games.
Sam Sifton
#20. Today's reports confirm that, unfortunately, post-crisis America is still not back to its good economic self.
Mohamed El-Erian
#21. To give voice to the questions
even in my own head
would have been to give them power, to confirm the presence of doubt, to risk eventual downfall.
Nafisa Haji
#22. I keep three kinds of books: those I want to read, those I want to reread, and those I want to reopen just to confirm how bad they are.
Sarah Manguso
#23. Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.
Andy Murray
#24. I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.
John Edward
#25. It is like being two foreigners, trapped in a land we have come to, unable to return to our own, and having only each other to confirm the reality of the place we once lived.
Robin Hobb
#26. The chances to get involved in the service after seeing a delicious growth hack are higher than after bombing with requirements to confirm the e-mail. Growth
Aladdin Happy
#27. As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
Edmund White
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Encourage a dream Justify failures or setbacks Confirm their suspicions Allay their fears Create a common enemy or opponent
William D. Horton
#31. I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.
Harrison Salisbury
#32. For some reason, it didn't feel right. Victor's words seemed to confirm that. There was another reason that he'd come here. Falling in love with Elizabeth might have been part of it. But that wasn't all. Something else was coming.
There is more.
Nicholas Sparks
#33. I'd like to see a ghost. It would confirm there's an afterlife.
Marlon Wayans
#34. 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
#35. I'd like to show you who's the boss, but I'm afraid it would only
confirm that you are.
Jane Seabrook
#36. We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.
Thomas Szasz
#37. Perhaps the day will come when Western science is able to confirm the existence of immaterial forces and realms. Compelling research in the field of parapsychology indirectly points to this possibility, yet most people in mainstream science can't bring themselves to consider the implications.
Mark Ireland
#38. He smiled. How kind of you to confirm what I already know. Perhaps next you will introduce me to myself. I hear I am quite popular.
Meredith Duran
#39. I will only vote to confirm a nominee for attorney general who is truly independent and who will guarantee reforms that restore and uphold the Constitution.
Christopher Dodd
#40. Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe.
Billy Zane
#41. That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.
Dogen
#42. Humans are no less eager than in the past to dominate, degrade, humiliate, and control - often in order to confirm their own sense of pride and superiority. (Adam Smith wrote in 1776 that this was the main motive for slavery.) But
David Brion Davis
#43. Never utter a word if it is not from your navel point and it doesn't confirm your regal, highest self.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#44. It matters not to an empiricist from what quarter an hypothesis may come to him: he may have acquired it by fair means or by foul; passion may have whispered or accident suggested it; but if the total drift of thinking continues to confirm it, that is what he means by its being true.
William James
#45. I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis.
Jenny McCarthy
#46. Most of the time the ones who dislike the pictures the most confirm to me that the picture has hit home and is probably truer than I know. Nobody minds a boring picture, they mind a picture that has gotten to the soft core.
Irving Penn
#47. I hate waiting on torture; an Arabic proverb says, "Waiting on torture is worse than torture." I can only confirm this proverb.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
#48. Sending children away to get control of their anger perpetuates the feeling of 'badness inside them ... Chances are they were already feeling not very good about themselves before the outburst and the isolation just serves to confirm in their own minds that they were right.
Otto Weininger
#49. I dress according to the requirement of the film, as a true actor. Off the camera, I'm just me. I have my preferences and my personal style. Before I step out, I look into the mirror just to confirm that my style is intact. Beyond this, it doesn't matter.
Vidya Balan
#50. Metaphysics of Evolution: What is Matter & Life?'Recent discoveries from Russia confirm that DNA / Genes are resonant structures which are subtly interconnected to their environment. i.e. Genetic material can be manipulated by waves with certain resonant frequencies.'
Alan Haselhurst
#51. Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
#52. When we have a narrative in mind, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it.
Nicholas Kristof
#53. I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan. For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
#54. The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.
Jeff VanderMeer
#55. I really wish I could confirm to him
that you do in fact have a penis. A very
big and pretty penis," Blaire whispered.
I winced.
"Please, just call it big.
Don't call it pretty. That hurts its
feelings.
Abbi Glines
#56. The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.
Norm MacDonald
#57. The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.
Mary Baker Eddy
#58. Mido has just been sent off and I can confirm he walks like an
Egyptian
Jeff Stelling
#59. Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
William Osler
#60. If you ever need to confirm that a girl is worth coming back from Hell for, show her your monster arm and see what she says.
Richard Kadrey
#61. Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.
Jacques Barzun
#62. If the Son was begotten by the Holy Ghost, it would be very dangerous to baptize and confirm females, and give the Holy Ghost to them, lest he should beget children, to be palmed upon the Elders by the people, bringing the Elders into great difficulties
Brigham Young
#63. God often gives us an inner conviction or prompting to confirm which way He wants us to go. This prompting comes from the Holy Spirit.
Billy Graham
#64. Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
George Washington
#65. I can confirm, although I am not certain, that we have very good reason to believe that tomorrow is Monday.
Joseph Ole Lenku
#66. So I will say this, "if any man marries just because of the emotions he feels towards a woman without first seeking the face of God to confirm if she is the suitable support needed for his life's assignment, such a man is acting in error.
Aderinsola Obasa
#67. So far, the results confirm the folklore: Programmers seem to be a bit more productive after they've done the estimate themselves, compared to cases in which the manager did it without even consulting them. When the two did the estimating together, the results tended to fall in between.
Tom DeMarco
#68. I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.
Yann Martel
#69. Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.
Edward Burnett Tylor
#70. Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
Franklin P. Adams
#71. Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#72. Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.
Derek Bok
#73. I can confirm that Poland should become a eurozone country, and not just because of the treaties that have been signed, but because I consider it of strategic interest both for Poland and the E.U.
Donald Tusk
#74. What need for feathers now? What need to confirm their loss? While the womb-red sky swelled with the promise of tomorrow, and he rode the warm, crimson currents, skimming, wheeling and gliding.
Georgina Anne Taylor
#75. You can always find an expert to confirm your belief, no matter how ridiculous.
Tom Clancy
#76. As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
Lance Loud
#77. It is not the job of writers to life our spirits. Books simply do what they do. They sometimes confirm the capricious drama of a childhood living room. When you think that you are in the grace of a dance you come upon something hard.
Dionne Brand
#78. I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
James Lileks
#79. When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind.
Criss Jami
#80. Animals, birds, and fish confirm Your power and Your existence.
Euginia Herlihy
#81. Life is in balance. The swings in the mind are there to give you the experience, and to let you discover the you within you ... That balance and swing lets your standard be tested. You cannot hold to something external. You must find your own depth and test it, confirm it ...
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#82. Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it.
William Hazlitt
#83. The second you think that you are something is the same second you confirm that you are nothing
Hisham Fawzi
#84. People will do anything for those who encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay their fears, confirm their suspicions, and help them throw rocks at their enemies.
Blair Warren
#85. I have come not to disturb or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in his own faith - so that the Christian becomes a better Christian, the Muslim, a better Muslim, and the Hindu, a better Hindu.
Sathya Sai Baba
#86. We've had every official in Hawaii, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet that has investigated this, confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii, Aug. 4, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital.
Barack Obama
#87. Our pride is tied up in being right. We tend to favor data that confirm our beliefs, so we don't see alternatives. Too often, leaders practice defense routines that become self-reinforcing.
Nina Easton
#88. It takes 30 days to change a habit and 90 days to confirm a habit. In 120 days the new habit is a part of you and in 1000 days you have mastered the new habit.
Misty Jordyn
#89. If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it.
Zig Ziglar
#90. Today in this household's obsession with researching pointless questions, I can confirm that Shakespeare cannot, in fact, ever have had a banana.
Debra Ferreday
#91. Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
Ted Cruz
#92. Everybody loves a good sob story, so long as it's not their story.
I don't know why. I'm not sure if people honestly care about other people or they just want a way to confirm that they've got it better than someone else.
John David Anderson
#93. An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.
E. M. Forster
#94. Larry: She doesn't want to be happy.
Dan: Everybody wants to be happy.
Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.
Patrick Marber
#95. She would have asked Noah to confirm this, but he was notoriously disinterested in the details of his afterlife. (Once, Gansey had tersely asked, "Don't you care how it is that you're still here?" and Noah had answered with remarkable acumen, "Do you care how your kidneys work?")
Maggie Stiefvater
#96. Partisans are more likely to consume news sources that confirm their ideological beliefs. People with more education are more likely to follow political news. Therefore, people with more education can actually become mis-educated.
Eli Pariser
#97. Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.
Arlen Specter
#98. By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
Tacitus
#99. To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may, now-after - a story that whatever comes shall perfectly continue or confirm: such is the ideal motive of religions.
Laura Riding
#100. Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.
Wim Wenders
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