Quotes About Claim

Of course Meghan Markle wasn't driven out of this country by racism. It is a ludicrous claim and symptomatic of how ridiculous the must-be-offended-at-all-costs brigade has become.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

I've never had a voice coach, but I am about to name drop horrendously here: I did once get some advice on how to project my voice from Sean Connery, which was lovely. It's all about where you breathe. That's my claim to fame.

Is there a higher energy? I would say yes, even if the energy is collective. Even if it's kind of Jungian, or the whole thing is collective consciousness, that may be God as far as I'm concerned. So is there an energy that's higher than mine? Yes. But would I claim it as God? I would say no.

There is a new conservative establishment in America, made up of those who claim to be the anti-establishment.

Free men do not forfeit their security, contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom. If so, then let him explain to us why we don't strike Sweden, for example.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Under the claim of "religious freedom"—the cover for a gigantic new fictional creature called "corporate conscience"—the rights of workers could be given short shrift once again. [More on this in chapter 8.]

Is all this necessary?" Bowen wanted to know. "Perhaps not," Wolfe allowed, "but I'm exposing a murderer and claim a measure of indulgence. You must have expected to spend hours here. Am I tedious?" "Go ahead.

To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed.

I, Horus, son of Osiris, claim the throne of the heavens as my birthright! he shouted.What was once mine shall be mine again.Is there anyone who would challenge me? The gods flickered and glowed. A few scowled. One muttered something that sounded like Cheese, although that could've been my imagination.

I remembered how guest rights worked from our last time in Jotunheim. If you made it inside the house and claimed you were a guest, supposedly the host couldn't kill you. Of course, when we'd tried that before, we ended slaughtering an entire giant family after they attempted to squash us like bugs, but it had all been done with the utmost courtesy.

Do you have anything to declare?' the statue asked me. 'Yes. I do have something to declare.' I said. 'I declare this is [dumb]

Oh, I think they've got a friend there, someone who used to live here. That's not the point. The point is, they claim they saw this … person. Working there in this open-plan office. And, well, you know. They reckon this person's a possible. For me.

He is now king of Scotland in all but legitimacy!

The American Ornithologists' Union, in a decision published earlier that year, had decreed that the White-winged was just a local variety, not a full specieis. So much for the Black Hills' only claim to birding fame. The juncos themselves, of course, did not seem to care; watching them, neither did I.

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.

As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.

As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.

Power is given to those who reach to take it & claimed by those who will stop at nothing to fulfill what they believe is their birthright.

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.