Quotes About Proving Your Point

#1. In the years just before ... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#2. Knowing what to do is the easy part. Finding the right person to do it with is a whole lot harder. - Josh Golden

Susan Mallery

#3. The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.

Calvin Harris

#4. Not contradicting a point and proving it are different things.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. As a rule, she ate fairly healthily but all bets were off during times of stress. Proving the point, she'd just polished off an entire bag of pizza rolls by herself and was covered in crumbs and questioning her choices in life.

Jill Shalvis

#6. Even in a city as small as Ferrara, you can manage, if you like, to disappear for years and years, one from another, living side by side like the dead

Giorgio Bassani

#7. My mother is so afraid of trouble that trouble sticks to her close just because he never gets tired of proving a point.

Marlon James

#8. If somebody's going to tell me I can't do something, I'll break every bone in my body proving them wrong.

Will Hobbs

#9. Once you go great, you never go good..You never go back, even if you could..

Iggy Azalea

#10. Conversation isn't about proving a point; true conversation is about going on a journey with the people you are speaking with.

Ricky Maye

#11. Delia realised you should see plenty of people you love, because the meaningful conversations don't happen in the first twenty four hours together, or forty-eight, or even the first few days. They came at moments like this.

Mhairi McFarlane

#12. Understand that I'm at my best when it comes to proving a point, not only to show that I'm a better fighter and a better athlete at 40½ years old, but I'm at my best when I know I've got to beat the system again.

Bernard Hopkins

#13. I'm not quiet because I'm not proving a point. I'm quit because I gave no idea what to say to the emotions tearing me up.

Katie McGarry

#14. Our insistence in proving that we are right is nearly always an indication that there has been some point of disobedience.

Oswald Chambers

#15. 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.

#16. I'm looking for what I was capable of before... Or to be more precise, I'm trying to see whether I'm still capable of it.

Nina George

#17. When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood. Jazz is the expression of harmony ... and at the same time of hope and freedom.

Herbie Hancock

#18. He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.

Michel De Montaigne

#19. Poems aren't postcards to send home.

Anne Sexton

#20. Keep a vigil on those who push you down always and leave them alone. Stay away from them so that you don't waste your precious time refuting them, trying to impress them or proving your point to them. Let them not occupy any free space in your mind.

Sanchita Pandey

#21. Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. When I ask you what club to use, look the other way and don't answer.

Sam Snead

#23. At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

Edward Norton

#24. If you have to shout to prove your point, you're probably wrong.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

#25. Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.

Jean De La Bruyere

#26. I don't believe in proving a point to anybody. Nobody is that important.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#27. Words have not just the astonishing capacity to banish boredom and create wonders. They also enable contact with the lives of others and with story worlds, arousing endless curiosity about ourselves and the places we inhabit.

Maria Tatar

#28. I know there's a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. There's a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order.

Tom McClintock

#29. I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

Michelle Branch