No Point To Prove Quotes

#1. The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken.

John Barton

#2. It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.

Henry Rollins

#3. Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.

Edgar Fiedler

#4. The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

John Bruton

#5. And while my mind is telling me I'm flirting with her just to prove a point, my body wants to play you show me your perky privates and I'll show you mine.

Simone Elkeles

#6. To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.

John Stuart Mill

#7. The pressure of population on subsistence, and on this question there is much to be said for Socialism; what was long thought to be its weakest point will, perhaps, prove to be one of its strongest.

John Stuart Mill

#8. Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.

Aristotle.

#9. In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.

Helena Christensen

#10. You can rarely prove something to someone who does not want to see it proven, and even more to the point, you can almost never prove something to someone who has financial or ideological reasons to not see it proven.

Derrick Jensen

#11. Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

Richard P. Feynman

#12. I think all of us, at some point early on in our lives, knew that we wanted to create music. We are still really young and sometimes we do feel like we have to prove were as great as all the rest of the bands -old and young. But we just do what we love and people seem to be really excited about it.

Hayley Williams

#13. The more you try, so desperately, to prove a point to get someone's approval, the more fleeting that approval might be, causing a chain of depreciation of self-esteem. Sometimes, all you need do is truly love yourself and get only the approval and acceptance of the inner self.

Ufuoma Apoki

#14. Are you high? There's no such thing as right and left socks." She held up two matching socks as if to prove her point.

Jewel E. Ann

#15. Don't even fucking think about it."
... "I don't know what you're talking about
"
"Do not make me grab your hard-one to prove my point

J.R. Ward

#16. Damn it, Bennett! Who the hell are you trying to prove yourself to? They're all inside. Everyone knows you are a bloody alpha - a literally bloody one right now. You don't have to hop to prove a point.

Kim Dare

#17. This point of scientific method merely shows (what no one to my knowledge ever denied) that if miracles did occur, science, as science, could not prove, or disprove, their occurrence.

C.S. Lewis

#18. If I have to do battle with you a thousand times to prove my point, I'll do it.'
The queen unwisely asked, 'But to prove what point, my dear Hamlet?'
'That I loved Ophelia! Fifty thousand brothers, with all the love they can summon, would not equal my love for here. Ophelia, Ophelia.

John Marsden

#19. The trial designed to bring the most rigorous statistical analysis to the cause of lung cancer barely required elementary mathematics to prove its point.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#20. We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#21. I should say no to prove a point", He said, his eyebrows pulled together. "But I would hate myself later if I said no and you never asked me again" - Travis

Jamie McGuire

#22. I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

Joan Didion

#23. Thomas Piketty assembles the facts to prove a central point about trickle-down economics: Doesn't work. Never did. He has cold, hard data showing how the rich keep getting richer and how the playing field is rigged against working families.

Elizabeth Warren

#24. Seriously. A cuddle rating. Who came up with that shit? Whoever had, it meant he had to cuddle her like a pro just to prove a point.

Erin McCarthy

#25. sometimes I wondered if the whole point of their friendship was just to post these images, to prove to the world that they had a bunch of pretty friends.

Jennifer Close

#26. When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

Young Jeezy

#27. I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other.

Salman Rushdie

#28. You just want me to hold you until you fall asleep?"
I didn't answer.
He shifted to look straight into my eyes. "I should say no to prove a point," he said, his eyebrows pulling together. "But I would hate myself later if I said no and you never asked me again.

Jamie McGuire

#29. I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.

Diana Krall

#30. By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

Philip Yancey

#31. It changed my life," the first-grader said of the iPad. "I'm reading everything on the street." To prove his point, he read all the words on a pizza box he cradled on his lap.

Anonymous

#32. The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap

Albert Einstein

#33. If out of reading this book you get just one thing - an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people's point of view, and see things from their angle - if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career. Looking

Dale Carnegie

#34. I want you to fuck me like you have a goddamn point to prove and you never, ever want me to forget it.

Kim Holden

#35. Never go into user research to prove a point, and never create goals that seek to justify a position or reinforce a perspective. The process should aim to uncover what people really want and how they really are, not whether an opinion (whether yours or a stakeholder's) is correct

Mike Kuniavsky

#36. I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point.

Monica Keena

#37. You don't have to make things harder then they have to be just to prove a point.

Sarah Dessen

#38. When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

Jehane Noujaim

#39. The point is, you should have stayed right where you were and let us handle this. Now we're going to have to tie up your uncle and put him in one of the cells or something until we sort out everything and can prove your innocence.

Lynsay Sands

#40. And I, being a possessive caveman, wanted to prove a point. You're mine.

Jasinda Wilder

#41. I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

Rufus Wainwright

#42. Magnus," I say more gently. "Listen. There's no point doing this. Don't marry me just to prove you're not a quitter. Because you will quit, sooner or later. Whatever your intentions are. It'll happen."
"Rubbish," he says fiercely.
"You will. You don't love me enough for the long haul.

Sophie Kinsella

#43. It should be a law. Everybody should legally own a gun. In fact, if you're caught outside your house without your gun, you get a ticket. And you get shot in the leg. Just to prove my point.

Christopher Titus

#44. Dogmatism increases in direct proportion to a person's inability to prove a point.

Donald J. Walters