Quotes About Claim

Oh! You're Lord Asriel!" "That's right. But how are you going to test the truth of that claim?" "What's the baby's name?" "Lyra." "And what's her dæmon called?" "Pantalaimon.

As a rule of social etiquette, when confronted with a pixelated screen of a dozen people, all of them inquiring, somewhat half-heartedly, as to "how you are," it is appropriate to make the expected, decent and accurate claim that you are fine and privileged, lucky compared to so many others, inconvenienced, yes, melancholy often, but not suffering.

In his stimulating book Knowledge and Its Place in Nature (2002), Kornblith addresses the claim that epistemic norms must appeal to a priori intuitions. The standard practice of philosophical

Possession is eleven points in the law.

They came out in the millions to show their dogged support for the woman the dictatorship claimed it had defeated in the election.

4. Well may New-England lay claim to the name it wears, and to a room in the tenderest affections of its mother, the happy Island! for as there are few of our towns but what have their name-sakes in England, so the reason why most of our towns are called what they are, is because the chief of the first inhabitants would thus bear up the names of the particular places there from whence they came.

I'm Jace." He let her see his own fangs. "And you're mine." A claim made before all the wolves in the room. From now on, any wolf who touched her would face him—and death. She swallowed and tilted her head back to better meet his stare. "Hello, husband." The wolf within growled…Mine.

He'd found "Jane" first. Finders fuckin keepers.

But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.

I could make a martyrly claim to having been the victim of childhood enslavement when I report that I started regularly cooking with my mother at a hot stove when I was five. But the truth is I wanted to cook. Cooking meant being near food.

Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim 'victory' by the summer of 2011 or so.

Now, a big part of Donald Trump's campaign strategy has been to try and undermine the legitimacy of the election. Then, if he loses, he can just dismiss the whole thing as corrupt and claim victory anyway.

I don't claim to know Israel. I don't speak Hebrew; my contacts are pretty limited. But I didn't know Vietnam; I didn't know Nicaragua, El Salvador or Honduras. It doesn't mean you can't reach your conclusions.

Sophia drifted closer to Nick, employing her fan to mask the movement of her lips as she murmured to him, "I told you so." Nick smiled wryly, recalling his sister's claim that Lottie would prove to be a great asset to him. "Those are without doubt the four most irritating words in the English language, Sophia." "She is a dear creature, and far too good for you," his sister informed him with amusement dancing in her eyes. "I've never claimed otherwise.

As busy as I claim to be, I've still got the greatest job in the world.

A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

No. We're not dating, but you're still mine.

a person who considers any portion of Scripture as fallible or errant must reject the whole of Christianity. And accordingly, we can reject his claim to be a Christian.

All I had to do was get old enough and New York would be mine.

An annual report that claims value-added, as a benefit to a community or to a society, is rare.

But is it really you behind the pretenses beyond dust and distances beneath the salt and the siren announcements and ancient impurities and decays that claim to be you

When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned w/ perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it.

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.