“Jiu-jitsu is the gentle art. It's the art where a small man (or woman is going to prove to you, no matter how strong you are, no matter how mad you get, that you're going to have to accept defeat. Thats what Brazilian Jiu-jitsu is.” MenArtMatterStrongAcceptingProveMadDefeatGentleJiu JitsuSmall Man Author:Saulo Ribeiro
“If we have to prove our Europeanism by accepting that French is the dominant language in the Community, then my answer is quite clear, and I will say it in French in order to prevent any misunderstanding: Non, merci beaucoup .” IfsOrderLanguageCommunityAnswersAcceptingClearProveDominantMisunderstanding Author:James Callaghan
“We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them.” PeopleWantTryingIdeasCharacterAcceptingClearProveMisunderstandingBad IdeasDebrisCharacter Of God Author:Phillip E. Johnson
“In virtually every Continental state at this time, aristocracies had to live with the risk that their property might be pillaged or confiscated. Only in Great Britain did it prove possible to float the idea that aristocratic property was in some magical and strictly intangible way the people's property also. The fact that hundreds of thousands of men and women today are willing to accept that privately owned country houses and their contents are part of Britain's national heritage is one more proof of how successfully the British elite reconstructed its cultural image in an age of revolution.” PeopleMenWayIdeasCountryStatesFactsMightAgeTodayHouseAcceptingRiskWillingRevolutionProveMen And WomenPropertyBritishProofBritainHeritageElitesFloatsAristocracyGreat BritainIntangibleBritish HistoryContinentalAristocraticCountry Houses Book:Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837
“To escape the power of the unknown, to prove to yourself that you don't believe in it, you accept its spells. Like an avowed atheist who sees the Devil at night, you reason: He certainly doesn't exist; this is therefore an illusion, perhaps a result of indigestion. But the Devil is sure that he exists, and believes in his upside-down theology. What, then, will frighten him? You make the sign of the cross, and he vanishes in a puff of brimstone.” BelieveBookReasonNightLanguageResultsAcceptingProveIllusionDevilCrossesDon't BelieveAtheistTheologySpellsUpside DownPuffIndigestion Book:Foucault's Pendulum Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning.” LevelsAcceptingProveAxioms Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools.” LongWishAcceptingFootballSeriousFoolProveClubsUpsetAttractiveInvestorsScandalous Author:Sepp Blatter
“Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by them. Its aim is to jolt us, not "into thinking," as in a Brechtian formulation, but specifically away from thought, into quasiautomatic action: "To us," as an executive at Coca-Cola puts it, "communication is message assimilation--the respondent must be shown to behave in some way that proves they [sic] have come to accept the message, not merely to have received it.” ThinkingWayWantActionAcceptingCommunicationProveMessagesAimAdvertisingAtmospherePropagandaBehaveExecutivesAssimilationBeholderCoca Cola Book:Boxed in: The Culture of TV Source: Boxed in: The Culture of TV
“I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules. I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for what they consider to be a good reason. Then the battle is on to almost prove to the audience that it's justified. How far can you go with that? How far can that character go before people won't accept it? Trying to walk to edge of that line is a challenge.” PeopleThinkingTryingPersonsReasonCharacterChallengesLinesWalksAcceptingBreakAudienceBattleProveEdgesBad ThingsJustifiedGood Person Author:Steven Knight
“I believe certain doctrines because God says they are true; and the only authority I have for their truth is the Word of God. I receive such and such doctrines, not because I can prove them to be compatible with reason, not because my judgment accepts them, but because God says they are true. Now this is one of the best services we can render to God,-to submit ourselves to him in our belief of what he has revealed, and ask him to fix his truths in our hearts, and make us obey them.” BelieveHeartI CanReasonCertainAsksBeliefI BelieveAcceptingTruth IsProveAuthorityJudgmentDoctrineWord Of GodSubmitBecause I CanCompatibleBest Service Author:Charles Spurgeon