Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".
A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I don’t want to prove anything. They prove to me, and I am the one who gets the lesson.
The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit.
The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number of hypotheses, but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove.
Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.
If Id lived prior to the 1980s, it would have been different, because I would have been playing to prove African Americans are equal. Now, I dont necessarily feel I have to play for black people, because obviously theyre doing everything in all sports. If I can go out there and play for myself and not feel I have to stand for something other than what I want to do, thats good.
Science probes; it does not prove.
Most of all, I like the fact that you share yourself with me. That I don't have to prove my strength to you. I don't have to hurt or be hurt to lie with you. " - Vane
Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr. , La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit. ]
Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.
There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory. . . . In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering. . . . But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.
You can only go so far in analyzing each and every one person's opinion because they are often quite different. You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.
To show a well-founded fear of persecution, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.
I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.