#proof

You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can end up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that really has more to do with personality-the fact that some people are simply more expressive or emotional or needy in a relationship. But beyond such smokescreens, the answer is there. Love is seldom-almost never-an even proposition. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#claudia #emily-giffin #love #love

A bit like religion, lots of rumor but no real proof that it existed. ↗

— Bethany Knox

#religion #rumor #religion

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#ago #am #bills #headed #i

The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#beliefs #christianity #christians #evidence #him

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. ↗

— George Eliot

#behind #best #failure #fear #i

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? ↗

— William Cowper

#applause #charms #heart #man #popular

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#finger #i #i remember #kidnapped #more

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.' ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#back #burden #challenger #elsewhere #inverted

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#best #bible #containing #elaborate #never

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man. ↗

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#brain #brain damage #causes #damage #fact