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Quotes About Claim

Yet in retrospect, with the present to vindicate the past, everyone can claim the illusory status of being a seer.
~ Yiyun Li
Unfortunately, there is much mediocre philosophy in circulation, and so one sometimes hears it said that There is no such thing as a family, only the individuals who make up the family. This is analogous to the claim that There is no such thing as a table, only the atoms that make up the table—which we also hear on occasion. But in reality, there are not only atoms and molecules. There are also tables.
~ Yoram Hazony
Excessive purity is like a glass plate. It may be highly polished and crystal bright, but it is still small, thin, fragile. One day, some slight pressure will crack it, and it will cut your fingers. And, in any event, isn't glass a compound? Can it really claim purity?
~ Yu Qiuyu
Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.
~ Yukihiro Matsumoto
very few people know that porn has not been shown to cause mental illness or crime... there is no evidence for this cause-effect relationship, according to many researchers who have tested this claim with studies.
~ Debbie Nathan
After Duras wrote Lol Stein, she made a curious remark - she said that she gave herself permission to speak 'in a sense totally alien to women'. I know what she means. It is so hard to claim our desires and so much more relaxing to mock them.
~ Deborah Levy
For a seducer to claim to love her as he loved God was sacrilege.
~ Denise Domning
You have the right to claim blessing, healing, protection, freedom, deliverance, because He was unjustly nailed to a cross so you could have a life that is fulfilling.
~ T. B. Joshua
So he built fires at the mouth of the river near there, and stood by them and called out loudly: "I have put my fire at the mouth of these rivers. All the land that they drain is mine, and no man shall claim it but me. I will call this place Reykjavik.
~ Jennie Hall
Satyrs share a deep connection to all things in nature and are highly sensual. Obsessed with physical pleasure, they are usually mild-mannered, but will be extremely sexually aggressive if another male stakes a mating claim on a female the Satyr secretly covets, especially if she's a virgin," Darius recited.
~ Jennifer Ashley
See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine.
~ Jennifer Egan
To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim —
~ Emily Dickinson
Perhaps we get, not what we deserve, but what we demand.
~ Emma Donoghue
but you must positively claim health, harmony, and True Place, if you really want those things.
~ Emmet Fox
They share a vision of a society where more people are able to claim and create more power—for themselves, by themselves—against the encroachments of others. And they now share an experience that teaches them that it is both possible and necessary to create power: to activate people who very reasonably could believe that the deck is so stacked against them that there's no point in getting involved.
~ Eric Liu
And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.
~ Amos Oz
The game in beauty is changing so much, if your product isn't high tech or can't make a unique performance claim - plump your lips, reduce your lines, look glossy, and stay on for 24 hours - you can't go to market today. I'm not just talking about a $20 lipstick, but a $5 lipstick!
~ Andrea Jung
amthus following the methodological claim asserted by Melvin L. DeFleur and Margaret H. DeFleur, who in their study Learning to Hate Americans aim to establish what they call a "dual pattern" that differentiates clearly between "attitude objects" pertaining to the United States government and its policies, on the one hand, and the American people, on the other.
~ Andrei S. Markovits
Cela istorija je samo jedan ?ovek koji pokušava da nešto oduzme drugom ?oveku, a obi?no to jedno ne pripada nijednom od njih.
~ Andrew Davidson
When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.
~ William J. Clinton
From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have got a big claim on him and Camelot. That's why the Arthurian legends are so popular - because they are such good stories.
~ Colin Morgan
Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.
~ Edwidge Danticat
In the aftermath of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., a false accusation has made its way back into the media: President Trump made it easier for the mentally ill to get guns. This claim is absolutely false.
~ Katie Pavlich
People who are denied access to power are also denied the opportunity to make or influence decisions to live a better life out of poverty and claim their rights.
~ Winnie Byanyima