Quotes About Confirmation

What does the pilgrim hope for at journey's end? Her beliefs confirmed? Revelation? Or does she secretly wish that the destination never quite materializes, that it keeps receding, ever shrouded in the distance, all the more to feed an inextinguishable devotion?

Years later the world confirmed my judgment, but this only pained me, like everything confirmed by the newspapers. We exist, we don't have any other choice, Glenn

In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don't.

Setelah sekian lama membaca surat permintaan konsultasi, ada satu hal yang kupahami. Dalam berbagai kasus, sebenarnya si pengirim surat sudah menemukan jawabannya. Mereka berkonsultasi hanya demi memastikan bahwa orang lain juga membenarkan keputusan mereka.

Of course, you won't confirm or deny it, which means I'm probably right, since if I was wrong, you'd be gloating about it.

Flood legends are an excellent confirmation of what we expected to find in a biblical worldview. Consider the converse. In an evolutionary story with millions of years where there was supposedly no global flood, there shouldn't be any global flood stories. So why would anyone have a massive global flood account in their history?

By then half the staff from the Sheriff's Office, as well as several paramedics, were on the scene. She'd been allowed a brief look at Daisy's watch—to confirm Dougal's identification, but not the remains. After that, she'd felt frantically upset and the paramedics had given her something to calm her down. Later,

or project has been reviewed and that for each you have confirmed that either (1) you have a plan you trust for its completion, or (2) it's captured in a place where it will be revisited when the time is right.

A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men.... Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men.

De todas las cosas conocemos la versión que nos han hecho creer. Presuponemos que nuestros padres dicen la verdad, y en realidad no tenemos motivos para pensar de otro modo. Sólo quien va un poco más allá de lo obvio se da cuenta de que no tiene por qué ser así en todos los casos. Siempre hay excepciones que confirman la regla.

There were other miscalculations. Bernstein should not have used the silent confirm-or-hang-up method with the Justice Department lawyer. The instructions were too complicated. (Indeed, they learned, the attorney had gotten the instructions backward and had meant to warn them off the story.) With Deep Throat, Woodward had placed too much faith in a code for confirmation, instead of accepting only a clear statement.

She decided her persona needed one more little push, just to confirm herself in Qing Song's eyes as a powerful, arrogant, but conveniently ignorant idiot. "I trust that your investigation won't get in the way of mine. Which I shall start to commence now. Good day." A powerful, arrogant idiot with bad grammar, she amended her own thought.

I don't believe you." "Wait." She held up her hand. "Let me check if I care." Hugh glared at her. "No," she said. "Apparently, I don't. It's good that we got that straightened out.

Was nicht ein Gegenstand der Erfahrung sein kann, dessen Erkenntniß wäre hyperphysisch, und mit dergleichen haben wir hier gar nicht zu thun, sondern mit der Naturerkenntniß, deren Realität durch Erfahrung bestätigt werden kann, on sie gleich a priori möglich ist und vor aller Erfahrung hervorgeht.

Entonces se acariciaron titubeantes, reconociendose, tanteando el alma para asegurarse de que no estaban equivocados.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.

Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.

this is cherries, too. (looking again) I declare I believe that's the only one.

If you wanted to make a case for evil, there was the confirmation, pooled in vivid red on this kitchen floor.

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.