Top 262 Proved Quotes

When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: ‘Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.’

I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they’re still doing it.

I defended my belt. Now I proved that I’m a true champion.

I am saying this with a certain sense of confidence and not arrogance. The defence ministry is being run without any middleman and in a transparent way. We have proved that defence procurement can happen without middlemen.

Historically, religion has often proved a more lethal and more divisive force than any secular ideology. It has also often been a more divisive force than race.

In a sense, I revolutionized the operatic scene because I proved you can make a great international career without the Metropolitan. I’m the only singer who’s done that, and I’m proud of that, so it’s all worked out for the best.

Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Salman Khan gave me a break, and that proved to be a boon. By the grace of God, my first song was a blockbuster.

Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment – one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.

I was an athlete. And I proved I didn’t win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.

I was told ‘you can’t play for England, you’re at Bolton.’ I proved them wrong.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

I’m open to all kind of scripts. As long as there’s enough scope to perform, I’d take up the offer. In fact, before Yuvan and ‘TT’ happened, I got an opportunity to work with a top actor-director combination. But my height proved to be a setback.

The Egyptians saw the sun and called him Ra, the Sun God. He rode across the sky in his chariot until it was time to sleep. Copernicus and Galileo proved otherwise, and poor Ra lost his divinity.

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice.

We proved that we could increase laser intensity by orders of magnitude. In fact, CPA led to the most intense laser pulses ever recorded. Our findings changed the world’s understanding of how atoms interact with high-intensity light.

I know I can go for days. I’ve proved this time and time again, against grinders.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

Nothing escapes God’s knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.

If you look at my career, I have already proved that after a big action film like ‘Chatrapati,’ I could do a cool film like ‘Darling.’

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor – this has been proved several times – and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.

Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

Nelson Mandela represents an enduring example of the human spirit and he proved for eternity that the ideals of democracy and human rights can overcome even the direst of circumstances.

My entire life I’ve proved that I’m able to overcome people’s negativity toward me.

In ‘Se7en’ and ‘Fight Club,’ Fincher proved his suave mastery of film violence; in Zodiac, his way of clarifying the many clues in a murder thriller. As he showed in ‘The Social Network,’ the director also knows that no wound is more toxic than a friend’s betrayal.

Obviously, we’ve proved a lot of skeptics, who thought we’d be gone after a record or two, wrong.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

People come to L.A. because they’re chasing that dream of a better life. That’s why I came here, because I thought it would be a place where I would find other people like me; people who wanted to write, people who had a dream of being something else. And that proved to be true.

I was very pleased you know, and I was afraid that I might stick out, but I didn’t. My happiest thing about that picture is that I proved that American actors can speak as well and also fit in with an ensemble like that.

I’ve proved I’m a formidable opponent.

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it’s possible to be an artist and a good person.

Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.

Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses.

In this rat-race everybody’s guilty till proved innocent!

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

We can support Barack Obama because he’s committed to putting America back to work with good jobs – and he proved it by saving the auto industry.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

The win over DeGale felt satisfying for several reasons as it proved what I’ve known all along.

I’m not serving in the same party as Boris Johnson. He’s proved that he’s incapable of holding high office, never mind being prime minister. He’s not true to what he believes in.

The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet the government wants a blank search warrant to spy and snoop on everyone’s communications.

The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.

The beauty of any conspiracy theory is that because it can’t be proved, that just makes it more ‘real.’ It’s not a question of believing or not believing, really; it’s more a question of just accepting a series of probabilities that lead to an undeniable conclusion.

My mother sang very well. She proved this in her film ‘High Society.’

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won’t make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

Everyone thought I was crazy when I said I have a nursing degree, but I believe I proved it.

Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don’t call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can’t measure it. You know, paint it black.

I don’t like to be proved wrong.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

Ronaldo has nothing to prove to anyone, he has proved his talent by being the top scorer in England. He has proved it by winning the Premier League, by winning the Champions League, with Manchester United.

I always thought that consuming ghee is unhealthy and leads to putting on too much weight, but I was proved wrong.

Whenever you have political conflict, such as the one that we have now between Russia and Ukraine, but also in many other conflicts around the world, it has always proved to be right to try again and again to solve such a conflict.