Quotes About Claim

As the philosopher Pamela Hieronymi says, "A past wrong against you, standing in your history without apology, atonement, retribution, punishment, restitution, condemnation, or anything else that might recognize it as a wrong, makes a claim. It says, in effect, that you can be treated in this way, and that such treatment is acceptable

But I also think that, as David Hume put it, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." And this is truly an extraordinary claim.

THIS BRAIN-AS-MUSCLE THEORY captures everyday experience in an elegant way. But it has some serious limitations. The claim about glucose is the weakest part

Though a "gentle word turns away wrath,"5 it's not fool-proof either, nor does it claim to be. They listen to power and consequences:

Yes, it is true: that night the angels began a song that will never ever end. The Savior who rescued your heart now claims your song. Have you joined the choir?

every man born of woman is three persons; what he appears to be, what he claims to be and,' he beamed round, 'what he really is.

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

I had already passed beyond the point of death and was now keeping company with ghosts who had joyfully come to claim me as one of their own.

Nay, a reckoning I might ask For the life, love, liberty That through thee I've lost so long: Thine 'tis rather to thank me, That I do not claim from thee Compensation for my wrong.

“We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah pressed even harder than the men of Israel.

So I answered them and said, “The God of heaven is the One who will grant us success. We, His servants, will start rebuilding, but you have no portion, right, or claim in Jerusalem.”

Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?

But if you claim, ëThis is the burden of the LORD,í then this is what the LORD says: Because you have said, ëThis is the burden of the LORD,í and I specifically told you not to make this claim,

Jeremiah started to leave Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to claim his portion there among the people.

From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subject to violence, and the violent lay claim to it.

So He said, “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to lay claim to his kingship and then return.

I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.