Quotes About Confirmation

Isn't it odd that you have to keep proving you're alive?

I'm all about proving things.

Admiration from a coach like Mourinho is definitely something that flattered me. It's confirmation of hard work and good performances.

I'd say she's ready, wouldn't you? --The Rook, The Looking Glass Wars

Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.

He thinks that by repeating he creates some kind of truth.

Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you're smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you're good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you're doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified.

Since there was nothing at all I was certain of, since I needed to be provided at every instant with a new confirmation of my existence, since nothing was in my very own, undoubted, sole possession, determined unequivocally only by me — in sober truth a disinherited son — naturally I became unsure even of the thing nearest to me, my own body.

Karl, oh my Karl!' she cried, as if by gazing at him she were confirming her possession, while Karl saw absolutely nothing and felt uncomfortable in the warm bedding that she seemed to have piled up specially for his benefit.

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

William Barr has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate four times, has served two U.S. presidents, and has proven himself to be a consummate professional who deeply respects the great responsibilities and boundaries of the office of the attorney general.

I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission seriously: either to accept it or reject it knowingly and with conviction.

Christopher Plummer once told me that he never orders a wine without first confirming that the restaurant has a second bottle in case he loves it.

In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

I couldn't be sure what you would be like now, but I couldn't believe you'd changed that much. And see—I was right. You turned out to be a nice guy.

All testing, all confirmation and disconfirmation of a hypothesis takes place already within a system. And this system is not a more or less arbitrary and doubtful point of departure for all our arguments: no, it belongs to the essence of what we call an argument. The system is not so much as the point of departure, as the element in which arguments have their life.

but he needed the approval of a few, to confirm the applause of the others.

This could all be a coincidence, of course. Perhaps Chamberlain and his cohort, for whatever private reason, were determined to see the Hitler they wanted to see, regardless of the evidence of their eyes and ears. Except that the same puzzling pattern crops up everywhere.

In five minutes you should know if people have confirmed, calculated & considered your vision.

They do not want the truth. They want to hear details that will confirm their misconceptions, that will validate their fears.

Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

Etna know to be true, since Dr. Little seldom speaks during her time with him. He will neither confirm nor deny her insights, a practice that invariably makes her more anxious when she leaves his office than when