To Prove Quotes

I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real life. I have yet to prove myself in the movies, but I'd love to get the opportunity to do that.

I'm in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn't even know I exist. And what's worse, she can prove it.

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.

War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.

We think that we do well to be angry with the rebellious, and so we prove ourselves to be more like Jonah than Jesus.

Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work. If you're passionate about an idea that's stuck in your head, find a way to build it so you can prove to yourself that it doesn't work.

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don't want to construct the show to prove something.

Understate and over-prove.

I'm not an actor - and I've got 64 films to prove it!

I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this.

'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.

Don't try to prove anything about yourself to anyone. It isn't necessary. Your worth shines through to others- know your worth.

I don't need to prove I'm an adult by being ultra-sexy that's immature

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

What you do simply proves what you believe.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

If people tell me something is impossible, I just want to prove that. I want to know that that's for certain. I don't want to not do something because someone says I can't.

In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.

I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven

Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.

Socialism works ... [and] Cuba might prove that. I think it's conclusive that there have been areas where socialism has helped to keep people at least stabilized at a certain level.

I am kinder to my body. I don't try to prove anything to myself or others. I keep thinking about the need to go slower, gentler and maintain a sense of humor about it all.

They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

To show a well-founded fear of persecution, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.

I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

But there are times when patience proves at fault.

Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone.

You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt.

..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.