Confirmation famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.
-- Calvin Miller -
Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.
-- David Baldacci -
Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.
-- Enrico Fermi -
At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
-- Garry Disher -
Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.
-- Gary Bauer -
Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere.
-- Jon Ronson -
I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
-- Ma Jian -
Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.
-- Mariella Frostrup -
Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response.
-- Ming-Dao Deng -
Confirmation strengthens us to defend the faith and to spread the Gospel courageously
-- Pope Francis -
Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will.
-- Priscilla Shirer -
The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.
-- Terry Eagleton -
Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.
-- Zell Miller -
In pre-Trump Washington where the old rules applied, Rudy Giuliani could never survive the Senate confirmation process.
-- Lawrence O'Donnell -
National security adviser is not a position that requires confirmation. This is a pick that like [Donald Trump] Chief of Staff, he gets to choose on his own and have installed.
-- Lawrence O'Donnell -
A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science, it can acquire only a more or less high degree of confirmation.
-- Carl Gustav Hempel -
There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.
-- Ernst Haas -
I would recommend any American who wants to understand where the government is going in the next four years of George W. Bush presidency to get a copy of her confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It's a road map, and it's pretty frightening testimony. Their definition of where democracy should go in the Middle East doesn't include Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan; it only includes Iraq, Iran, and Syria.
-- Seymour Hersh
