Top 100 Quotes About Proving
#1. I told the boy I was a strange old man," he said. "Now is when I must prove it." The thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again.
Ernest Hemingway,
#2. I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. Keep proving people wrong and proving myself right.
Conor McGregor
#3. Education is a tender garden, whereas ignorance is weeds. History - the old history - was full of examples proving that, when civilizations fell, learning was the first thing to disappear.
Anonymous
#4. For Temujin, such chosen forms of fictive kinship were already proving more useful than the ties of biological kinship.
Jack Weatherford
#5. But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!
Robert Burns
#6. I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.
Carly Fiorina
#7. Never say never. At least with working out I'm proving you don't need to. If I have three chins at 75 I'm not saying I wouldn't get rid of them, but who knows. Generally, I'd leave it alone.
Peter Andre
#8. In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#9. I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.
Rene Thom
#10. During my long investigation of these strange objects, I have seen many reports verified by Air Force Intelligence, detailed accounts by Air Force pilots, radar operators, and other trained observers proving the UFOs are high-speed craft superior to anything built on Earth.
Donald Keyhoe
#11. My father always said that you cannot graft a culture of science and engineering onto an Iron Age society. And so it's proving.' Bisesa studied him. 'You'll have to tell me about your father.
Arthur C. Clarke
#12. She didn't need to be able to see through his chest to know how much he loved her. He was constantly proving it by how much of her crap he was willing to take.
Josephine Angelini
#13. Why do I have to keep proving to people that I am not a liar?!
Hillary Clinton
#14. Proving nothing," said Ford. "I wouldn't trust that computer to speak my weight."
"I can do that for you, sure," enthused the computer, punching out more ticker tape. "I can even work out your personality problems to ten decimal places if it will help.
Douglas Adams
#15. * But even Cammaerts' luck ran out eventually, proving
Rita Kramer
#16. Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often of a startling nature, for very diverse fields of effort.
Carl Rogers
#17. I don't care about proving things to people. I'm proving things to myself.
Jon Fitch
#18. In certain situations it was best not to know or at least best not to leave any way of proving that you knew what you knew.
Jonas Jonasson
#19. I'm going to spend the rest of my life proving to you that I'm worthy of your love.
Georgia Cates
#20. Whenever you try to break God's moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others - all while proving His law in the process.
Ravi Zacharias
#21. I look forward to proving something to myself and others.
Eric Lindros
#22. I would have been an atheist but for you proving to me that both heaven and hell were real, even if they existed only when I was with you.
Tiffany Reisz
#23. Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.
Simon Greenleaf
#24. I had never even thought about doing something that I'd never done before or proving anything.
Harrison Ford
#25. Being a kid is all about learning to bide time, proving just how unnatural it is to delay gratification.
Kelly Corrigan
#26. The way a man treats a woman, he explianed, is a relfection of his relationship with God. Thats why i say, a woman is the proving ground for a man. You can determine a mans quiality by watching him with a woman
Eric Ludy
#27. As Alfred North Whitehead once put it, those who devote themselves to the purpose of proving that there is no purpose constitute an interesting subject for study.
Edward Feser
#28. I am proudly pro-life and believe that science is proving those who believe in the sanctity of life right every day. A majority of Americans now agree that abortion after five months for any reason is wrong.
Carly Fiorina
#29. Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Julian Barnes
#30. The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.
Hippolyte Taine
#31. I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.
Jilly Cooper
#32. Strangest of all, it was the first time thoughts of equality had entered my head, and I could only attribute it to God, with whom I'd lately taken up and who was proving to be more insurrectionary than law-abiding.O
Sue Monk Kidd
#34. Science teaches us that we are rarely right. The whole discipline of science is aimed at proving ourselves wrong, isn't it?
Gemma Malley
#35. Mom always said I was born to sit in the electric chair, but I'm proving her wrong. I'm going to die on my knees, begging for my life.
Bauvard
#36. Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#37. I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I?
Mikhail Bulgakov
#38. My hope is that, factual or fabricated, every line in Tsarina leads to a single truth: that when you forget that those you disagree with are people, not just your faceless opposition, you don't end up proving who is right and who is wrong. You end up with a body count.
J. Nelle Patrick
#39. I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
Vera Farmiga
#40. For nothing worthy proving can be proven, nor yet disproven;
Anonymous
#41. If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means
Walter Rodney
#42. This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.
Richard P. Feynman
#43. But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.
Dwight Yoakam
#44. There's nothing that beats proving you're funny by making a funny thing, and right now there are huge outlets for that, with You Tube and all the other stuff online.
Louis C.K.
#45. A successful person is one who by God's grace and mercy is continuously maturing in his thoughts, in his conversation, and in his deeds to practice the revealed will of God and proving it according to His Word.
Tim Yarbrough
#46. Schopenhauer's Will-to-live, commendable as it may seem as a hypothesis, is too overwrought in the proving to be anything more than another intellectual labyrinth for specialists in perplexity. Comparatively, Zapffe's principles are non-technical and could never arouse the passion of professors
Thomas Ligotti
#47. shows how fruitful analogies can be - not in proving points but in illustrating them, showing spiritual truths by means of material images.
Peter Kreeft
#48. For the second time in history the Conservatives will have a female prime minster, proving that we are not just the greatest but the most progressive party in Britain.
Andrea Leadsom
#49. 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
#50. The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.
Peg Bracken
#51. By visibly hovering near us, they are "proving" that they are "with us.
Anonymous
#52. Are you busy proving your worth or living it? A critical distinction
Renae A. Sauter
#53. I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites.
Jim Barksdale
#54. If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!
Richard P. Feynman
#55. No one will give you change. You have to work for it. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by working hard, by believing in yourself, by proving yourself. There are windows, but if you are radical, no one will talk to you. And that window will shut.
Haifaa Al-Mansour
#56. In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the scene, I thought they were proving him wrong. Later, we learned that Lennon and McCartney had each composed their pop masterpieces separately, individually. So it goes.
Tom Robbins
#57. ... and Lynn is dead inside, like a corpse. She Instagrams methodically, clinically, as if she's gathering evidence for defense, like her entire life is dedicated to proving that she has a life.
Caroline Kepnes
#58. Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
Gary Sheffield
#59. People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#60. Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth whether administered by judges, juries, or administrative officials and especially one that puts the burden of proving truth on the speaker.
William J. Brennan
#61. We were supposed to be having a serious conversation about where we were headed - or indeed why we were headed nowhere - but it was proving impossible. Banter was the only register we seemed capable of and without it we'd lost all means of communication.
Catherine Sanderson
#62. Anyone can prove anything except that anything's worth proving.
("The Undying Thing")
Barry Pain
#63. So you can make me promise, you shit - and I did promise you - but if you think your losing your sight is going to make me leave you, you're so fucking wrong. And I'll spend the rest of my days proving it to you.
S.E. Jakes
#64. I still need to go through the process of proving myself.
Lindsay Lohan
#65. Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Orson Scott Card
#66. At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.
Edward Norton
#67. I am a big believer of what Darwin discovered in the Galapagos, proving that the species most responsive to change will survive over apparently stronger or more intelligent competitors.
John Elkann
#68. Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#69. It seems to me that the whole of human life can be summed up in the one statement that man only exists for the purpose of proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not an organ.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#70. Salvation is not about proving the existence of God; Salvation is about where you want to go from this sinful wicked world. Matthew 24
Felix Wantang
#71. Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded a complete failure.
Emil Cioran
#72. When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
George R R Martin
#73. Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
Jules Renard 1890
#74. Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.
Florynce Kennedy
#75. There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist!
C.S. Lewis
#76. The mentality of being the super power globally or regionally has contributed strongly to the development of very negative aspects to the political cohabitation the countries of the region than proving the capability of producing solutions that would meet the needs of the public.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#77. Could one make up for lack of moral courage by proving physical bravery?
Arthur C. Clarke
#78. I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#79. It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.
Lemony Snicket
#80. Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.
Steve Lacy
#81. Frank, this case is a publicity stunt and a shakedown. My clients did nothing illegal, and you and I both know I'll have no problem proving that to a jury. So there's no reason to discuss your ridiculous settlement offer any further. Call me when somebody sees a penis.
Julie James
#82. I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.
Natalie Maines
#83. I'm constantly proving myself. I have to always prove myself. There are roles where I feel like, "That should have been a straight offer. Why am I having to call my people and fight for it?"
Taraji P. Henson
#84. There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.
Frantz Fanon
#85. I think what's difficult is proving to people that a script actually does work and sometimes the laughter might not be on the page, it might be between the lines.
Alice Lowe
#86. And how I flattered myself
From time to time with proving to myself
Nothing in you could be unknown to me.
You don't belong to the mind's calculations,
And you disproved each of my demonstrations,
Since to be unexpected is your truth.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#87. Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true.
Leo Strauss
#88. I think what's important for us to understand and there is a way forward on this issue that we an bring our country together on. And while I'm president I will do it. And it will begin by bringing illegal immigration under control and proving to the American people.
Marco Rubio
#89. [One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.
Carl Sagan
#90. I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum.
Robert Barany
#91. Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#92. Kevin Reeves ... proving an ill wind blows nobody no good.
David Coleman
#93. When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.
Howard Fineman
#94. Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance.
Harun Yahya
#95. It's impossible to be perfect, and you won't do a good job if you're too focused on proving yourself to others.
Jessica Williams
#96. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#97. That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away ... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.
Jodi Picoult
#99. That is the problem with rumors," said Avin Brone. "It is very hard to prove that things are not true - much more difficult than proving they are.
Tad Williams
#100. False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin
