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Quotes About Claim

I vigorously deny hitting Ms. Sheridan.
~ Marc Cherry
At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.
~ Tobias Hill
Well, I've claimed to have seen two ghosts in a hotel room.
~ Rachel Dratch
I won't claim that I know it all, but I do know how much money is involved in making a Kannada movie. I've done my homework.
~ Nikita Thukral
He refills my drink without me having to ask, somehow ferreting out one last cup of the good stuff. He has claimed me, placed a flag in me: I was here first, she's mine, mine. It feels nice, after my recent series of nervous, respectful post-feminist men, to be a territory.
~ Gillian Flynn
He has claimed me, placed a flag in me: I was here first, she's mine, mine.
~ Gillian Flynn
Can't one love or hate, I broke out at him, as long as that? Don't make any mistake. I'm just another of your jealous clients, I don't claim to be any different fro m the rest,but there's been a time-lag in my case.
~ Graham Greene
I could have hated him for saying it: it was like a claim. If you really loved me, I thought, you'd behave like any other injured husband. You'd get angry and your anger would set me free.
~ Graham Greene
After all, he liked me. That was a claim he could never fail to honour because it astonished him.
~ Graham Greene
Weren't you just doing the same thing, trying to maximize what had in order to get what you wanted? People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It's people who claim that they're good, or anyway better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.
~ Gregory Maguire
I always wanted to find my voice and claim my tone, but I was doing it through the steps of being a TV writer. I had the executive producer title. I was running the room.
~ Jill Soloway
But political parties must claim to be radically different from one another, and political journalism must play along, or else why exist? So the Liberals and Tories concentrate on what does distinguish them: their leaders. That in itself just about guarantees a campaign of ad hominem gooning.
~ Neil Macdonald
As far as I can tell, the only unambiguous consequence of the claimed invasion of Earth by beings from another star system has been a nonstop torrent of TV specials. So if you're one of the many who believe the aliens are here, you really do have to admit this: They're the best houseguests ever.
~ Seth Shostak
To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been freely given; the fact that the torture would have started again if they hadn't confessed was a minor detail.
~ Simon Hoggart
Trump has claimed he knows more about ISIS than America's leading generals. Clearly, this is also total nonsense; he doesn't seem to have done the slightest thing to educate himself about ISIS.
~ Peter Bergen
And as I sit and talk to you I see your face go white This shadow hanging over me Is no trick of the light The spectre on my back will soon be free The dead have come to claim a debt from thee
~ Shane MacGowan
Get that Property Of Whitford Public Library stamp and stamp it right on his forehead. Then cross out the library's name and write yours
~ Shannon Stacey
And he began to claim his reward in thorough and leisurely fashion.
~ Mary Balogh
I wonder you did not marry. Cecily has told me that you were in society once. You are so beautiful and so wise, I wonder all the men did not love you. Elizabeth laughed. There were so many duels over who should have me, she said, that finally there was no one left alive to claim my hand. I am a very tragic figure, you know.
~ Mary Balogh
People who claim lactose intolerance tend to also voice a belief that they're gluten-intolerant. Usually with no evidence of either.
~ Mary Roach
more I saw of them, the greater became my desire to claim their protection and kindness; my heart yearned to be known and loved by these amiable creatures;
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It wasn't about the money," she said. "If I even tried to claim it, think of the lawyers and the creeps I'd have to deal with. It would ruin my life." "Seriously?" he said. "You're not going to fight for seventy million dollars?" "What can I buy for seventy million dollars?" "Anything. Almost literally anything.
~ Maureen Johnson
Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don't.
~ Ayn Rand
I will have no claim to make except that I need you so much. And that I love you. I told you once not to consider it. Now I'll use it as a tin cup.
~ Ayn Rand