Top 100 Confirms Quotes
#1. I wasn't saying you were heartbroken." I sound like English is a new language for me, the way I stutter out the words. "I just meant it was hard for me to ... to watch."
He neither confirms nor denies that he might or might not have been even a teeny bit heartbroken.
Susan Ee
#2. CBS News on Tuesday had Bob Kerrey in a Vietnam scandal, Senator Bob Torricelli in a donor scandal and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a sex scandal. This confirms what we always knew. Bill Clinton does the work of three men.
Argus Hamilton
#3. Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.
T. S. Eliot
#4. The free market opens the way for men to operate at their moral best, and all observation confirms that the poor fare better under these circumstances than when the way is closed, as it is under socialism.
Leonard Read
#5. What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!
Horace
#6. Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
Jonathan Edwards
#7. Faith cannot be about absolute certainty in the letters of the Bible and wrath against those who don't comply (Ephesians 2:15). It has to be about overwhelming trust in God's love,6 which as the apostle Paul confirms, is beyond the letter of law and narrow legalistic interpretations.
Amos Smith
#8. We have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
Angela Davis
#9. The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent.
Andrew Graham-Dixon
#10. neuroscience confirms that storytelling has unique power to change opinions and behavior.
Wallace J. Nichols
#11. Without my photography life would be boring. Photography adds an extra dimension to my life. Somehow it confirms my place in the world
Rennie Ellis
#12. When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.
Junius
#13. And everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters.
Jane Austen
#14. Elijah Wood confirms his standing as the foremost actor of his generation ... Wood acts so eloquently with his sentient face and searching eyes that his job becomes one of concealing how redundant his spoken lines are - a tricky job he largely is able to bring off commendably.
Jay Carr
#15. Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
Dallas Willard
#16. Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.
James MacDonald
#17. Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms our earlier apprehension that he is directly interfering in India's internal affairs.
Bill Vaughan
#18. Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.
Dorothea Brande
#19. One of the first lessons that I hope you grasp is that woven into meaningful literature, so tightly that it can't be separated, is a telling lesson, even in stories as short as this one."
"Always?" I ask.
"Always!" she confirms. "Good stories teach!
Camron Wright
#20. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.
Max Weber
#21. If I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's a waste of time. I don't want to read a book that simply confirms what I already know.
Michael Haneke
#22. We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms our sense of omnipresence as well as the validity of the material world.
Fred Ritchin
#23. Forcing a subject to respond the way you want him to only confirms your bias, my dear.
Erin McCahan
#24. Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.
P.D. James
#26. Even the self-assured truth-finders and self-proclaimed freedom-fighters reject Truth. As admirable as such endeavors may be, they still only really want it so long as it to some extent confirms what they had already presumed to be true.
Criss Jami
#27. The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom that Brahman, the ultimate reality without, is identical to Atman, the reality within.
Fritjof Capra
#28. Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.
Clive James
#29. What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.
Horace
#30. When we fight with the truth and stand in it to the end, then God Himself comes and confirms His Word, His righteousness and His truth
Sunday Adelaja
#31. Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
Lord Byron
#32. Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.
William Wilberforce
#33. Deja Vu confirms a faithful path worth taking.
T.F. Hodge
#34. There is nothing more feminine than a blowjob. You naked on your knees. Your guy with his hand resting on the back of your head. A really good blowjob confirms some primal nostalgia. It puts the world in balance.
Chloe Thurlow
#35. It confirms for me that we did something on Days that meant something. We had our ups and downs, but Missy and I and some of the other actors, created something that was really memorable.
Matthew Ashford
#37. Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
Sue Grafton
#38. Not any more. Not according to Glory Goblin or Brontes the Cyclops. Imbri merely confirms that Hugo has perfected his talent, and is now a good deal smarter and handsomer than before. A woman has to be responsible.
Piers Anthony
#39. 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
#40. These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their votes on merchants.
James Madison
#41. When the government and electrical utility company jointly harass an electrical fraud researcher, it confirms that the research is progressing in the right direction!
Steven Magee
#42. Still, it's always nice to be around somebody who thinks I am wonderful. It confirms my low opinion of people.
Jeff Lindsay
#43. Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturae judicia confirmat.
Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#44. A turkey is fed for a thousand days by a butcher; every day confirms to its staff of analysts that butchers love turkeys "with increased statistical confidence.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#46. My own ongoing research among secular Americans-as well as that of a handful of other social scientists who have only recently turned their gaze on secular culture-confirms that nonreligious family life is replete with its own sustaining moral values and enriching ethical precepts.
Phil Zuckerman
#47. East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.
Peter L. Berger
#49. I have no sure sight of God's glory except through his word. The word mediates the glory, and the glory confirms the word.
John Piper
#50. Through joy, the Soul confirms your ability to remain victorious - even in the midst of defeat.
Eleesha
#51. The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a state of exaltation. The art of painting is to me sacred. It is central to all the other visual arts. This art is in a constant state of renewal.
Joseph Plaskett
#52. Distance starts in hearts,
confirms in mind &
actions from tongue ...
Adil Adam Memon
#53. Instead of using this space to pretend the newly released CIA 'torture' report confirms that the United States is the most evil nation in the history of the universe, I'm going to address Jonathan Gruber's confirmation that he believes we're all stupid.
David Limbaugh
#54. Common observation confirms that a mobile, exploring toddler learns faster and more efficiently than the child whose feet never leave the couch and whose eyes never leave the T.V. screen.
Gary Ezzo
#55. Where is the direction of influence going to run? It's going to run - and the research confirms this again and again - it's going to run from the experienced to the inexperienced. The net outcome of sex education, styled as Rogerian encountering, is more sexual experience.
William Coulson
#56. The moment you are there You know but the moment cannot be explained for it is beyond language and expression. It is a moment of silence, joy, bliss, void, crying, dancing but nothing confirms to normal.
Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
#57. Faith is the profound knowing that comes before reality confirms it.
Croft M. Pentz
#58. I don't see the country audience looking forward to an out male singer. There are rumors about people but no one ever confirms because there is a tremendous amount of money at stake.
Callie Khouri
#59. The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.
John Ensign
#60. The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
Lewis Mumford
#61. She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?
Toni Morrison
#62. Two women in love confirms for me that there is a love that can push you beyond what everyone else says is possible. I
Daisy Hernandez
#63. Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.
P. J. O'Rourke
#64. Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Carl Jung
#65. It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. Chocolate is medicinal. I just did another study that confirms it.
Michelle M. Pillow
#67. Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
Wendy Kopp
#68. The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one of research, the progressive uncovering of detail.
Kenneth Coutts-Smith
#69. The more I see the world, most dislike, and the time confirms my belief in the inconsistency of human nature and how little can one trust the appearances of goodness or intelligence
Jane Austen
#70. HeartMath research confirms our intuitive understanding of the heart with solid science and explains how the electromagnetic field radiating from the heart can affect those around us.
Doc Childre
#71. There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery
Enrico Fermi
#72. The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.
John Marshall
#73. In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret new information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions and avoids information and interpretations that contradict prior beliefs.
Jenny Offill
#74. In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us ... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.
Martin Luther
#75. Research confirms that we are more comfortable with people who are familiar looking, whether we know them very well or have not previously met them.
Glen Wilson
#76. you want to be right about how you see the world, so you seek out information that confirms your beliefs and avoid contradictory evidence and opinions.
Anonymous
#77. The smartest people tend to seek out evidence that confirms what they already think, rather than new information that would give them a more robust view of reality.
Anonymous
#78. Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.
Paul Samuelson
#79. Jeffrey Makala, the friendly and astute rare-books and special collections librarian who will be my guide, confirms my opinion that librarians, along with independent-bookstore owners and dedicated middle- and high-school teachers, are the most selfless guardians of literature on earth.
Maureen Corrigan
#80. My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love.
Jess C. Scott
#81. Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
Henry Norris Russell
#82. Sometimes God asks us to take a step before he confirms the course.
Todd Stocker
#83. Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.
Dee Dee Myers
#84. There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not, confirms our existence. Everyone needs to be seen, accepted and loved.
Anne Sewitsky
#85. Never apologize to women. It only confirms that you were wrong, and incenses them further.
Lisa Kleypas
#86. I love you," she confirms. I take a step closer. "Since when?" "Since fucking always.
Elle Kennedy
#87. Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.
Bryan Sykes
#88. The passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when He says, 'How can you have faith in Me when you receive honour from one another and do not seek for the honour that comes from the only God?' (cf. Jn. 5:44).
Gregory Palamas
#89. Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.
Jerry Bridges
#90. A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'
Paul Watzlawick
#91. My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
Jimmy Carter
#92. There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking.
Robin Chase
#93. Rhiannon's Law #22. You can't lie to yourself, so don't bother trying. Doing so only multiplies your douchebag level to the umpteenth power and confirms what others have been saying for years - that you are an idiot.
J.A. Saare
#94. Confirmation bias is the tendency to give more weight to evidence that confirms our beliefs than to evidence that challenges them.
Kathryn Schulz
#95. This too shall pass." It confirms that you can and should expect change and Uncertainty as a natural part of your life experience because nothing (and no thing) lasts forever. The sooner you learn this life lesson, the less you shall suffer.
Dennis Merritt Jones
#96. I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.
James Anthony Froude
#97. Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
Dee Dee Myers
#98. Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
John Henry Newman
#99. As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
Maajid Nawaz
#100. Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .
Nicholas D. Kristof
