#confirmed

I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#came #confirmed #dallas #episcopalian #got

Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed. ↗

— Vince Cable

#bad #been #billions #brown #confirmed

I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it. ↗

— Lizzy Caplan

#back #bat #camp #confirmed #days

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#desire #importance #natural #needed #others

Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations. ↗

— Ilya Yashin

#being #brigades #confirmed #cover #democratic

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

This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements. ↗

— Walther Bothe

#confirmed #different #experimental #researchers #result

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

#confirmed #economics #everyman #history #joyce

We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction of the magnetic lines of force we found that our result was confirmed. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#direction #even #force #found #light

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#apples #assent #classrooms #confirmed #degree