(81 quotes found)
“Trust, but verify.”
Damon Runyon
“The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his buttons.”
W. C. Fields
“You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.”
John Burroughs
“And this is a Book We have revealed, blessed, verifying that which is before it, and that you may warn the metropolis and those around her; and those who believe in the hereafter believe in it, and they attend to their prayers constantly. (The Cattle”
quran
“I think we all realize this, but like most things we already know, this has been empirically verified by academics with grant money.”
Carl Elliott
“A juvenile female verified that Maddox was inside the house. We obtained a search warrant. We were able to make contact with Maddox at 2:15 p.m. by using a cell phone, and at 2:27 p.m. he surrendered.”
Capt. Allan Elkins
“I had been to Europe that summer, and they said, 'Can anybody verify that?'”
Alice Rivlin
“The average savings of 30 minutes a week per patrol officer under 'verified response' is not worth a big jump in crime like this.”
Chris Russell
“It is relatively easy for the IRS to verify the returns and reported income of taxpayers whose income results from wages, interest and dividends, and who take the standard deduction, who comprise the majority of taxpayers, ... It is harder, and often requires audits, to verify the income of taxpayers with other forms of income and deductions.”
Charles Rossotti
