The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent.
Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.
we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.
Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.
We've lived through a time in which people have felt they could forge their own future and make a better world. We may not have achieved our dreams in the time frame that we once believed was realistic, but the magnitude of what is yet to be achieved only confirms the importance of our commitment. Knowing this, we can't stop now.
My feeling, however, is that films that are open are more productive for the audience. The films that, if I'm in a cinema, and I'm watching a movie that answers all the questions that it raises, it's a film that bores me. In the same way, if I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's a waste of time. I don't want to read a book that simply confirms what I already know.
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices.
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
I confirm that and Donald Trump now confirms that [President Barack Obama is a legitimately elected president of the United States].
There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not, confirms our existence. Everyone needs to be seen, accepted and loved.
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.
Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.