Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.
The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything
Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.
Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.
No one else can tell you what your life's work is, but it's important that you find it. There is a part of you that knows - affirm that part.
This type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ.
Today I do affirm that I am Divinely guided...There is that within which knows what to do and how to do it, and it compels me to act on what it knows.
We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others.
To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.
But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
I learn to affirm
Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road,
wrong turns that lead
over the border into wonder.
So we have to be ready, willing, and able to really transform ourselves, and each other in the world, not just say it and affirm it, "Oh, I want to change". Intention is important, but so is action.
Learning to charge properly is a vital key to abundance. Affirm that you will never devalue yourself by charging less than what you feel you are worth.
In all "benedictions", be they expressing plea or thanksgiving, we affirm that God is the "source" of every bounty we enjoy and of every favour we seek.
To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.
Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.
Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.
In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle.
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
Judgment is affirmation with the intention to thereby affirm competently enough, and indeed aptly. That distinguishes judgments from mere guesses.
I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it.
To affirm that God is God is to want to live in a particular way.
But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.
I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.
Having support from family, friends - and now fans - definitely helps to affirm that I am worthy, loved, and beautiful. I hope everyone can see that in themselves and feel this way.
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.
To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.
Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.
It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.
And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus.
Experience G.R.A.T.I.T.U.D.E. at a deeper level... Give it... Receive it... Affirm it... Think it... Inspire it in others... Talk about it... Understand it... Dream it... Experience it in everything you do.
It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings both as performers and audience members.
It is through generous giving, that we affirm before the world, our nation's faith in the inalienable right of every man, to a life of freedom, justice and security.
Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture.
Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.
Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's what artists do.
I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
Every being has the need not only to be but to affirm his own being. This is especially significant for the human organism, for it is gifted with, or condemned to, self-consciousness.
Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.
Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of. What happens then is our perceptual ability, no matter where we are, expands in that direction.
I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.
doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.
The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.
I have a hard time making movies that affirm life and say life is a good and happy place. That's not true about the world.
Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God's blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.
From my experience, I can affirm that I don't really know how the women see the world like, but it seems to be quite different from how men do.
There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.
The inerrancy of Scripture means that scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.
I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.
To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.
Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.
In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
Although the trends are promising and reishi mushrooms exhibit a number of interesting medicinal properties, modern scientific techniques have yet to affirm its traditional 'panacea polypore' status.
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