Quotes by category:Confirmation

The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.

Al Sharpton

confirmation balance enough

Let everything be a confirmation of Awareness.

Bentinho

confirmation awareness

Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.

Calvin Miller

confirmation creeds discovery

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

interpretation confirmation degrees

Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.

Chuck Palahniuk

daisies confirmation regret

Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.

David Baldacci

confirmation dies wanted

There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.

Ernst Haas

formulas confirmation methodology

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

confirmation awards levels

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

confirmation cabinets president

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.

Herb Kohl

confirmation excellence giving

What the devil is Chocho?' Will whispered. Horace's grin broadened. 'You are. It's what the men call you,' he said. Then he added, 'It's a term of great respect.' Behind them, Halt nodded confirmation. 'Great respect,' he agreed.

John Flanagan

confirmation devil men

Believe and be confirmed.

John Milton

confirmation believe

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere.

Jon Ronson

bias confirmation seeing

The illustrator is essentially a reporter: his subjects come from the outside, lit by a flash. A subject comes to the classical artist from inside, and when he discovers confirmation of it in the outside world he feels that it has been there all the time.

Kenneth Clark

confirmation artist world

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

confirmation believe reality

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

staff confirmation trump

In pre-Trump Washington where the old rules applied, Rudy Giuliani could never survive the Senate confirmation process.

Lawrence O'Donnell

confirmation trump process

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

Ma Jian

confirmation olympics world

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

confirmation attributes girl

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 superstitions decision