#confirm

I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#confirmed #getting #help #i #i think

Most of us are not really approaching the subject [scriptures] in order to find out what Christianity says: we are approaching it [them] in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#religion-christianity #social-psychology #religion

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

#reading #reality #escape

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. ↗

— Tacitus

#delay #falsehood #haste #inspection #truth

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school. ↗

— Joe Biden

#confirm #go #i #law #law school

And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#confirmation #front #hours #i #judiciary

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#human #invented #loneliness #music

The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny. ↗

— John Ensign

#around #belief #bush #chance #choose

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. ↗

— Voltaire

#case #confirmation #news #sacrament #should

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#confirmed #economics #everyman #history #joyce