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Quotes About Confirmation

C'est par le verbe et l'acte que nous nous insérons dans le monde humain, et cette insertion est comme une seconde naissance dans laquelle nous confirmons et assurons le fait brut de notre apparition physique originelle .
~ Hannah Arendt
The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts.
~ Michael Oxley
The Connecticut Open is one of my favorite events in the summer, so it feels great to have it confirmed on my calendar. I have a special relationship with the tournament and always feel such strong support when I'm on the court there.
~ Petra Kvitova
Every time in my life when I have chosen to delay following inspired counsel or decided that I was an exception, I came to know that I had put myself in harm's way. Every time that I have listened to the counsel of prophets, felt it confirmed in prayer, and then followed it, I have found that I moved toward safety.
~ Henry B. Eyring
When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to me an actor. You know that you're on the right track and you're doing work that can affect people. When that goes hand-in-hand with important issues that we're still living with, and we will be for a long time, sadly, it's so confirming of everything.
~ Sally Hawkins
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
~ Thomas Malthus
Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.
~ Claud Cockburn
Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.
~ Leo Szilard
When we put ourselves in a position to feel the Spirit and receive repeated confirmations from heaven, we also put ourselves in a position to counteract deception, distortion, and untruths.
~ Sheri Dew
Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
You think I need to say something to make it real.
~ Max Barry
Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has.
~ Max Brooks
By saying it aloud, he thought perhaps it might seem silly to him. That perhaps he'd been swept up in the moment with Genevieve and that maybe he wasn't quite to the point of love yet. But he was dead wrong. The words felt right on his lips. Saying them aloud only confirmed what his heart already knew. He was well and truly in love with the lass, and there was naught but contentment within him at the whole idea.
~ Maya Banks
Most people learn nothing from experience, except confirmation of their prejudices.
~ Bertrand Russell
Most people learn nothing from experience except confirmation of their own prejudices.
~ Bertrand Russell
Let them present their witnesses to vindicate themselves, so that people may hear and say, "It is true." Isaiah 43:9
~ Beth Moore
There is no one like You, and there is no God besides You, as all we have heard confirms. 2 Samuel 7:22
~ Beth Moore
When a fact begins to resemble whatever you feel is true, it becomes very difficult for anyone to tell the difference between facts that are true and 'facts' that are not.
~ Katharine Viner
If I signed it that is the way it really happened. I don't know of any individuals who are saying anything different. I have no idea what is going on with that.
~ Jose Canseco
The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.
~ Dmitri Mendeleev
The ordinance of confirming a new member of the Church and bestowing the gift of the Holy Ghost is both simple and profound.
~ David A. Bednar
Then I mouthed the sweetest four words in the English language: I told you so.
~ Sue Grafton
Knowledge clinched or confirmed always feels like a coin falling into the right slot, a ball landing in a basket, a peg knocked into its proper hole.
~ Susan Gubar
As long as art is understood and valued as an "absolute" activity, it will be a separate, elitist one. Elites presuppose masses. So far as the best art defines itself by essentially "priestly" aims, it presupposes and confirms the existence of a relatively passive, never fully initiated, voyeuristic laity which is regularly convoked to watch, listen, read, or hear — and then sent away.
~ Susan Sontag