Onus Of Proof Quotes & Sayings

A really honest man will neither take nor covet his neighbor's good, indeed it may be said that he cannot steal; yet he is capable of stealing should be so elect. His honesty is an armor against temptation; but the coat of mail, the helmet, the breastplate, and the greaves, are but an outward covering; the man within may be vulnerable if he can be reached. - ch. 10 of Jesus the Christ — James Talmage

every happy friend increases our probability of being happy by 9 percent, — Frederic Lenoir

The day we stop yearning, is the day we stop learning. — Seekerohan

There are rumors that there is a John Edwards sex tape. People say it's twenty minutes of Edwards caressing and stroking ... And that's just the part where he fixes his hair. — Craig Ferguson

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Aunt Fostalina says when she first came to America she went to school during the day and worked nights at Eliot's hotels, cleaning hotel rooms together with people from countries like Senegal, Cameroon, Tibet, the Philippines, Ethiopia, and so on. It was like the damn United Nations there, she likes to say. — NoViolet Bulawayo

The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences. — Meriwether Lewis

The approach is not to limit the choice, but to provide a broader choice. It's appropriate to have choices that are indulgent and others that are better for you. — Richard Wyckoff

Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it to people you know, trying to make sure that the mathematics of the story work, you feel that those are in place, and the actual writing and final draft doesn't take as long. — Brit Marling

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor. — D.H. Lawrence

I'm probably not going to play a junkie and that's OK because there are other people who will do it better. — Rosamund Pike

When it came to portraying couples who never directly connected, the Newmans were the Olympic gold champions — Jeanine Basinger

The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from 'Galaxy Magazine' as its source material. — David Gerrold

People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains. — David Blaine

There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it. — Tom Stoppard

If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this is indeed so. Until and unless some such grounds are produced we have literally no reason at all for believing; and in that situation the only reasonable posture must be that of either the negative atheist or the agnostic. So the onus of proof has to rest on the proposition of theism. — Antony Flew

I am the president of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me those votes! — Abraham Lincoln

The Oracle pursued a logical course of confuting theism, and leaving 'a-theism' the negative result. It did not, in the absurd terms of common religious propaganda, 'deny the existence of God.' It affirmed that God was a term for an existence imagined by man in terms of his own personality and irreducible to any tenable definition. It did not even affirm that 'there are no Gods'; it insisted that the onus of proof as to any God lay with the theist, who could give none compatible with his definitions. — J.M. Robertson

You are not only waking up sleep deprived, but now you are also sleep deprived and in charge of another human being. — Jim Gaffigan