Quotes About Confirmation

This is what the Law of Surprise states. It is the child's, not the parent's, consent which confirms the oath, which proves that the child was born under the shadow of destiny.

And you know each other, you say?' 'As sure as eggs is eggs,' the goliard confirmed cheerfully. 'After all, I know his name, and he mine. He knows I'm called Tybald Raabe. Go on, m'lord Reinmar, what's my name?' 'Tybald Raabe' 'See?

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

most of us want to be proven right more than we want to know what's true. We aren't on truth quests. We're on confirmation quests.

That instant proved to me that it was not the first, almost unemotional, sighting of a potential lover that was significant, but the second, the moment not of recognition but of confirmation, so that every other consideration is irrelevant, as if it might have mattered at some point in the past but no longer had any currency in the charged wordless exchange that seals the matter for ever, regardless of the dangers thus incurred and whatever the cost.

The hearing test, which involved sitting in a quiet room listening to noises of various pitch played through headphones, confirmed the worst. I had no hearing in my left ear whatsoever.

It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.

I'll leave it to others to try to determine whether or not that was unfair or not. I'm not the nominee.

If you look at the Constitution, the two clauses of the Constitution make it very clear the president shall nominate, and the Senate shall provide advice and consent. It's been since 1888 that a Senate of a different party than the president in the White House confirmed a Supreme Court nominee.

For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.

My father was a man of principle who found his principles confirmed in the unremitting failure which they brought on him.

And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.

I can neither confirm nor deny that if you entered data into an algorithm for 'building the perfect actor' it would produce Brett Goldstein.

When you've been going on about something for a while, it is always satisfying to discover that other people agree with you.

Leftist law breaking, rule breaking, violence, and disruption have already marred the public Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.

Adults have pretty much made up their minds - they like you to the extent that you confirm what they already believe.

It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.

Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up.

the incident confirmed his innate pessimism.

awaiting the confirmation that soon came by telephone.

Bolstered by the imprimatur

OK," Reacher said. "It wasn't a colonel. It was a one-star general.

When we found it you said the number would be either the client, or a source of independent corroboration, or a source of further information.

His lips moved. A single syllable, brief, inaudible, but definitely a voiced palatal glide morphing into a voiceless alveolar fricative. Therefore almost certainly: Yes.