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Quotes About Claim

meaning that Mary's dynastic claim had at all costs to be discounted.
~ John Guy
as it would soon give Mary a great deal more to think about than reasserting her claim to the throne of England.
~ John Guy
When a mood of excitement pervades a market or surrounds an investment prospect, when there is a claim of unique opportunity based on special foresight, all sensible people should circle the wagons; it is the time for caution.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
1 in 50 Americans claim to have been abducted by aliens.
~ John Lloyd
Both as a young man and more recently, he first figuratively and then literally set out to "play God," initially by making the claim that humans had the power of gods and then during the past decade by creating an organization to save and restore endangered species with modern biotechnology.
~ John Markoff
Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.
~ Matthew Kelly
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
~ Steven Pinker
I had no right to claim him, I knew it. But in a solitary life, there are moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.
~ Madeline Miller
i had no right to claim him, i knew it. but in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth, such a constellation was he to me.
~ Madeline Miller
I had no right to claim him, I knew it. But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such constellation was he to me.
~ Madeline Miller
To align oneself with the real while intimating that others are at play, approximate, or in imitation can feel good. But any fixed claim on realness, especially when it is tied to an identity, also has a finger in psychosis.
~ Maggie Nelson
To align oneself with the real while intimating that others are at play, approximate, or in imitation can feel good. But any fixed claim on realness, especially when it is tied to an identity, also has a finger in psychosis. If a man who thinks he is a king is mad, a king who thinks he is a king is no less so.
~ Maggie Nelson
If there must be a moon, let it be high, a high moon made in Baghdad, neither Arab, nor Persian, nor claimed by the goddesses all around us.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
The record stated, I am the record
~ Unknown
What about all those bodies?" "Those are the dumbasses who thought they could take what's mine.
~ Mandy M. Roth
Scandinavians started seizing this wealth because they realized it was theirs for the taking.
~ Unknown
Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half
~ John Milton
Let me tell you a few things about this place, the UP," Laurent said, as they drove out of town in his Silverado pickup. "The UP is about the most remote place in the lower forty-eight—other people make the same claim, but they don't know about the UP.
~ John Sandford
How many people volunteer for an army and then claim conscientious objector status?
~ John Scalzi
Often you see a famous actor who says they produced something, when all they did was claim to have an idea at a dinner party and make three phone calls.
~ Ethan Hawke
I have fantasies of burning down an insurance company just so THEY have to make a claim.
~ Alonzo Bodden
...find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
We have engrossed to ourselves, in a time when other powerful nations were paralysed by barbarism or internal war, an altogether disproportionate share of the wealth and traffic of the world. We have got all we want in territory, and our claim to be left in the unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly acquired by violence, largely maintained by force, often seems less reasonable to others than to us.
~ Margaret MacMillan
She could have a cook come, or subscribe to a service, but she does the cooking herself. It's part of her claim to fame. Other wives look at her and wonder, and she wants it that way. She photographs and posts. She dresses for dinner. It is a competition, even though it pretends not to be.
~ Unknown