To Prove Quotes

Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.

When I started out in the profession, it was definitely about proving that I was worthy, but after achieving a certain amount of success, I realized I didn't have to prove anything to anybody.

I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear. I seek a society non-reliant on nuclear energy, a society that can do without nuclear energy, and Japan can prove a role model. It’s possible.

That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God.

That's progress: when we prove things wrong.

Hollywood sucks. I've got the bruises to prove it.

The only people you need in your life are the ones that prove they need you in theirs.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

If you believe in someone enough, and you just don't stop believing in them, mo matter what, no matter how much they push you away, and no matter how often they prove they're only there to use you.

The search for something can prove as interesting as finding it.

It is not necessary to move mountains in order to prove one's faith.

a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block" -Nyah

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're right, you'll change your mind.

Sooner or later, the market will do what it has to do to prove the majority wrong.

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.

I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.

I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.

People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

I have nothing left to prove. I've already done enough to my neck.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

What, I have actually loved it, because I've been underestimated every step of the way, and it's so exciting when you can prove them all wrong.

Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.

The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

And remember, that is the criterion. If a person can enjoy and celebrate his death, that shows he has lived rightly; there is no other criterion. Your death will prove how you have lived.

These attacks prove one thing for certain: the liberal establishment is desperate to keep leaders like me out of office, and we are sure to hear more wild, dishonest smears during this campaign.

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.

You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

You overcome the logical resistance to change by proving that a new approach actually works, usually on a small scale.

How do you prove we exist? Maybe we don't.

I've got a lot to prove because of the criticism over my weight and moving back down a division.

I had to come to the United States to prove myself. I fought for a long time in England and a lot of people thought I was a protected fighter.

I'm not trying to prove anything.

That's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves.

No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.

Reality bites, and I've got the teeth marks to prove it.

If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?

My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.