Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.
I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God.
People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could.
It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.
There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.
Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.
Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam's razor.
I am giving them a Warning and a Guidance from God to help them to do that which will save America. And I warn them that these calamities are going to increase now in severity so America might humble herself to that call of God to let the Black man and woman go. It is the time that we should separate to go free and that America should provide us with land and implements that would allow us to build a future for ourselves - for they have proved to be disagreeable to live with in peace.
I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sense--but by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurd--for sense cannot be counterfeited.
When the contrary magnetic poles were on the same side, there was an effect produced on the polarized ray, and thus magnetic force and light were proved to have relation to each other.
But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what you said is proved spot on right by time.
The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the town and the town to the country. . . . It energized punctuality, discipline, and attention; and proved a moral teacher by the influence of example.
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.
Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.
The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.
All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.
During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood. . . proved a more reliable, cost-effective means of securing world domination than any nuclear arsenal or diplomatic démarche.
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you. '
In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!
It's possible to spend money anywhere in the world if you put your mind to it, something I proved conclusively by running up huge debts in Cincinnati.