Proving Quotes

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

There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.

I love proving people wrong.

My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

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

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

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

I still need to go through the process of proving myself.