Quotes About Claim

Because we have no history I construct one for you making use of what there is, parts of other people's lives, paragraphs I invent, now and then an object, a watch, a picture you claim as yours

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful. There are places that claim you and places that warn you away. Silence is the response to both emptiness and fullness.

I wanted to kiss her, she was beautiful again to me. But I dared not risk it. It wasn't only that I would have frightened her, it was that the desire to kill her was almost overpowering. Some fierce purely male instinct in me wanted to claim her now simply because I had claimed her in another way before.

I wanted to kiss her, she was beautiful again to me. But I dared not risk it. It wasn't only that I would have frightened her, it was that the desire to kill her was almost overpowering. Some fierce purely male instinct in me wanted to claim her now simply because I had claimed her in another way before.

I cannot pretend to be the mortal that once refused Lestat. I cannot reach back and claim that being's reimaginative heart.

We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

Hal shrugged. "It's not our bridge.

the pope's being infallible was an impossibility, and the pope arrogantly laid claim to what could belong to God only, as a perfect being.

You claim to be a man, but that is a lie revealed to any who can see you here. You deny you wish godhood, yet you raise up an empire to praise you. You call yourself the Master of Mankind, and perhaps that is the ONLY truth you ever spoke- that you wish to make your children slaves"- Horus Lupercal

This inscription most likely applied to Mary's claim to the English throne

In an individual one would regard it as evidence of insanity to see someone repeatedly undertaking enterprises that resulted in his losing precisely what he claimed he was trying to achieve; it is not less lunatic to do it on the international scale, but if youve been catching the news lately youll have noticed its being done more than ever.

it will destroy the authority of the present governors, and absolve the people from subjection to them, since they, having no better claim than others to that power, which is alone the fountain of all authority, can have no title to rule over them.

It appears thou has a thing that belongs to me.

I had a lover. She sent my lover. But he had had dealings with the Morningstar in the past, and I could not permit that one to claim him again.

The Devil might claim he could not see in human hearts. But Lucifer was, after all, the Prince of Lies. And when those lies went clothed in truth, so much the better.

Mehiel, Kit reminded, my Power may be chained and my magic shorn from me, but I am a bard, a poet, and a warlock too. And there's a warlock too. And there's a half-completed Bible in Tom Walsingham's study that says that my God has as much claim on the world as the God of Richard Baines and…Lucifer.

Puede que obtengamos una victoria, pero los ángeles caídos no lo van a admitir jamás. De modo que tendremos que reclamar esa victoria incluso después de haberla ganado. Tenemos que afirmar que nos pertenece y que nadie nos la puede arrebatar.

Reality as one knew it was what claimed one's allegiance. Deepening experience might change one's conception of it but until that happened the life one knew was the life one had to live.

If someone means well, but does ill, the ill is still done—and the consequences still exist. Besides, if intent forgives wrong, then any wrongdoer can claim good intent.

Therefore there is one body and one head of this one and only church, namely Christ and Christ's vicar, Peter and Peter's successor." Pope Boniface VIII had written this three years earlier in 1302, and it was that claim of papal sovereignty over Christendom that was the source of all the trouble.

Obama's claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take.