Top 100 Prove It Quotes
#1. This is my country,' Lefty said, and to prove it, he did a very American thing: he reached under the counter and produced a pistol.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#2. I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#3. You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don't fool yourself into thinking for a moment that my heart and mind were included in the purchase.
Nenia Campbell
#4. Hollywood sucks. I've got the bruises to prove it.
Norman Fell
#5. No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know.
Henry David Thoreau
#6. You have better luck than you think you do," Cian said firmly.
Turning back toward him, she said, "Yeah? Prove it?"
You found me."
Yeah, and awakening your inner vampire, scaring the shit out of your
girlfriend, and screwing up your life."
Then that's my bad luck," he corrected her.
Rhiannon Frater
#7. What we say or do is unimportant; it is merely semblance, beyond which our real life lies concealed ... We know this better than we can prove, but in order to prove it we have to express it, and on the path to speech the essential somehow gets lost.
Hermann Bahr
#8. I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.
Bobby Fischer
#9. I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.
Billy Graham
#10. The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.
Biz Stone
#11. Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?
Ashleigh Brilliant
#12. He was ragged around the edges, a walking open wound with psych issues galore. But he still had a beating heart. Thoughts, feelings, fears. He was still human, and someone should prove it to him.
Tonya Burrows
#13. I'm no actor. And I have sixty-four pictures to prove it.
Victor Mature
#14. We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
Harriet Martineau
#15. We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
Ayn Rand
#16. I'm not any religion myself, but for the record, I'm pretty sure I do believe in God. It's just a feeling I have. I can't prove it, but since when are you supposed to prove a feeling? God is the only situation where they expect you to do that. Plus, God embarrasses people. Which I totally enjoy.
Frank Portman
#17. Maldonado's face was ghastly. 'That' she said, pointing below the bed where the cat lurked, 'and that' - pointing to what lay on the floor - 'prove it was no dream. Do dreams leave marks behind them?' ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")
Cornell Woolrich
#18. I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.
Hilary Duff
#19. You're allowed to have gravitas when you've got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you're attractive and younger - or, at least, you have to fight really hard to prove you're capable of productive thought.
Mariella Frostrup
#20. How often has Hitler said to me: 'I know that my decision or action is correct. I cannot explain at the moment why, but I feel that it is right and the future will prove it so'.
Rudolf Hess
#21. When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.
Michio Kaku
#22. The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.
Croft M. Pentz
#23. We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.
Stan Brakhage
#24. Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.
Charles E. McKenzie
#25. Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And whatever it is, you must prove it.
Lajos Egri
#27. He had the sex tape, the canceled tour dates and now the record label's sword of Damocles hanging over his head to prove it.
Pepper Winters
#28. Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let's see something to prove it.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#29. It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.
Rush Limbaugh
#30. The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.
Alister E. McGrath
#31. You've already said all that. Don't embroider on it, but prove it!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#32. To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.
Stuart Sutherland
#33. it's better to keep my mouth shut and look stupid than open it and prove it.
Rich Amooi
#34. Personally, I prefer Stevie Wonder," confessed the Chink, "but what the hell. Those cowgirls are always bitching because the only radio station in the area plays nothing but polkas, but I say you can dance to anything if you really feel like dancing." To prove it, he got up and danced to the news.
Tom Robbins
#35. The Bible is just a book. But, you choose whether to prove it's all true or nothing.
Shim Steward
#36. It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.
Henri Poincare
#37. If I wasn't sure before, I'm sure now that she poisoned him to death. I'm also fairly sure she had help killing him, and by God, I'm going to prove it, if it's the last thing I ever do.
Jeannie Walker
#38. Some say "fear even helps like; The flight or over love reaction but to me it is your loving heart to prove to prove it worthy.
Auliq Ice
#39. In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.
Walter Kirn
#40. I incessantly look for water in wells dug by men, and I have drunk enough sand to prove it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#41. Just in front of her lay the Congaree Swamp National Forest. To prove it, a mosquito the size of a kitten landed on her arm and prepared to drill.
Sela Carsen
#42. Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
Emily Bronte
#43. Priests and nuns have had their chance with me. I'm still wearing the scars to prove it.) And so, during the weekend recess, the Meiers invited Cullivan to eat Sunday dinner with the prisoner in his cell. The opportunity to entertain his friend, play host
Truman Capote
#44. Prove it to the person that looks back at you in the mirror
Nancy B. Brewer
#45. It is one to say you have faith and another to be in a tight corner and prove it.
Smith Wigglesworth
#46. Why is it," Jonathan puzzled, "that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he'd just spend a little time practicing? Why should that be so hard?
Richard Bach
#47. Listen to everyone, read everything; believe absolutely nothing unless you can prove it in your own right!
Milton William Cooper
#48. Building confidence comes from overcoming the voice in your head that says you are not capable; silence the noise and then prove it wrong.
Sam Owen
#49. The old creation lives by pride and retribution: I stand up for myself, and if someone gets in my way I try to get even. We've been there, done that, and got the scars to prove it.
N. T. Wright
#50. Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.
Mark Twain
#51. My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.
Emery Lord
#53. if a theorem is geometrically obvious why prove it? This was exactly the attitude taken in the eighteenth century. The result, in the nineteenth century, was chaos and confusion: for intuition, unsupported by logic, habitually assumes that everything is much nicer behaved than it really is. Good
Ian Stewart
#54. She edged closer. "If this is your attempt to scare me away because you think I should be with a mortal man, it's not going to work." She rolled her eyes. "Been there, done that, have the divorce papers to prove it.
Kristen Painter
#55. I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it
Bobby Fischer
#56. Prove it to me," I whispered. "Prove to me you aren't an ass and I'm all yours.
Sarah Darlington
#57. I inherited the Pack Master title because I'm the biggest, baddest motherfucker in the United States and I'm willing to kill anyone who challenges me mercilessly to prove it." ~ Uncle Owen
Jessie Lane
#58. You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it.
Leslie Ford
#59. I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
Loretta Lynn
#60. The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself. It is often flung out as a sort of prop to support a decaying conviction which, whilst strong, required no enunciation to prove it so.
Thomas Hardy
#61. Singing is something you can do for a lifetime, and studies prove it is good for mental, physical, social and psychological health.
Mike Kruger
#62. They were prepared physically and mentally for war. They'd all had at least nine lives, and had the burns, the dents, the bullet holes and the knife wounds to prove it.
Andy McNab
#63. The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.
Ron White
#64. Yes, it's my real name. I had to pull out my passport twice today to prove it.
Neon Hitch
#65. Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it.
Jim Carrey
#66. For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that would be enough to prove it undivine; and that which is but one step beyond our understanding must be in some of its relations as mysterious as if it were a hundred.
George MacDonald
#67. Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.
Claude C. Hopkins
#68. I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
Fergie
#69. If I, and this book, have anything to prove, it's that when you believe in yourself, other people will believe in you, too.
Sophia Amoruso
#70. I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.
Jim Thompson
#71. IVY: Mom believes women don't grow more attractive with age. KAREN: Oh, I disagree, I - VIOLET: I didn't say they "don't grow more attractive," I said they get ugly. And it's not really a matter of opinion, Karen dear. You've only just started to prove it yourself.
Tracy Letts
#72. God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
Andre Weil
#73. He threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it
Allen Ginsberg
#74. Who isn't frustrated and does not prove it by his actions - if you want to say so? But through art the psychologically maimed may become the most distinguished man of his age. Take Freud for instance.
William Carlos Williams
#75. I feel like I'm one of the best strikers in MMA. I just need the time to prove it. You haven't really seen my full potential yet.
Anthony Pettis
#76. So it's mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something you're saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself.
Art Garfunkel
#77. She shrugged. There were no fucks for her to give. Absolutely zero. I wouldn't have been surprised if she'd turned her pockets inside out just to prove it to me.
Max Monroe
#78. Sure, it's fun to chat with people with interesting backgrounds who seem to have a passion for your company. But a job interview is not a friendly chat. You need to determine whether candidates, can they really do the job. So ask them to prove it.
Kathryn Minshew
#79. Immoderation, Mariotta, is a thief of money and intestinal joy, but who'd check it? Not I. Here I am, weeping soft tears of myrrh, to prove it.
Dorothy Dunnett
#80. I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.
Spike Milligan
#81. Have you ever felt love?
Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and scientifically proved your love existed? If you could not prove it, would that mean your love didn't exist? What would you trust: your own feelings, or science?
Derrick Jensen
#82. Man, you cannot be real," the human said softly.
"Why not?"
"You just can't."
She laughed a little. "Well, I am." He cleared his throat again. Offered her a lopsided grin.
"Mind if I ask you to prove it?"
"How?"
"Can I touch your hair?
J.R. Ward
#83. You're mine," he breathed against my neck when his lips left mine to travel lower. "Forever. Say it." "I'm yours," I swore, the words ragged from passion. "Forever. Now, take me and prove it.
Jeaniene Frost
#84. God's love is so real that He created you to prove it.
Nick Vujicic
#85. AB=(1/4)((A+B)2-(A-B)2) is an amazing identity, and unfortunately I have to remind my current students how to prove it.
Ronald Graham
#86. I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected to need the writer, that the writer has to prove it. All that stuff might add up to a kind of fun in the work. I like things that are about interesting subjects, which sounds self-evident.
Lorin Stein
#87. In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
Charles Caleb Colton
#88. You're the most important thing in the world to me. I know you don't believe it, but I'm going to prove it to you.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#89. I fished inside my head for something, some way to prove it. And those strange words floated to the surface of my need. In as clear a
voice as l could, l looked at Prospero and said, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Jonathan Maberry
#90. But how? Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever written a book, spoken a speech? No, his great genius is declared in his doing nothing particular to prove it. It is moreover declared in his pyramidical silence.
(Moby Dick Chapter lxxix p345)
Herman Melville
#91. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices and devote yourself for a fake love to prove it the most real one.
M.F. Moonzajer
#92. I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.
Raul Labrador
#93. You were created a hero and born to prove it. Stand on challenges and make a difference.
Israelmore Ayivor
#94. All of us are mad and then she adds,smiling, but I'm the only one with a certificate to prove it
Alexandra Fuller
#95. But some of these young folks are different, and they want times to be hard so they can prove something. Who they want to prove it to I just can't say.
Wiley Cash
#97. I'm in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn't even know I exist. And what's worse, she can prove it.
Arj Barker
#98. Hercol was simply unwilling to kill. Tholjassans revere life, he had told Ott years ago, possibly the last time they had spoken. So do we, Ott had answered. But sometimes a knife in the dark is the only way to prove it.
Robert V.S. Redick
#99. You look at John Travolta in 'Pulp Fiction', you look at Donnie Wahlberg in 'The Sixth Sense.' People have liens against them in crazy ways and the audience is always forgiving - if you prove it.
Seth Green
#100. He loved me and he beat me. I loved him and I took it. It's as simple as that, and as stupid and complicated. It's terrible. It's like knowing someone you love is dead but not having the body to prove it. He loved me. I know it.
Roddy Doyle
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