Proving Quotes

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on.

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

I love proving people wrong.

It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips.

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum.

And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.

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.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.

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

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.

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.

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

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.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

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.

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.