Quotes About Claiming

Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.

Given the manifest frailty of men, given the long succession of delusions that was their history, what could be more preposterous than claiming oneself the least deluded, let alone privy to the absolute?

There are not many such as I on the road today, pleading passage, claiming the alms of roadside charity.

They justified their taking up arms against their queen by claiming they had already obtained the damning evidence

she was claiming him. We all did. It was proper for a son to greet his father first; mothers came second, if at all. But she was a goddess.

I'm not claiming to be sober. I think that that would be misleading. I drink alcohol. My father has a vineyard, and the wine is really delicious, by the way.

Such arrogance. A right of youth, he supposes, a necessity. How else is it possible to face the terrifying void of your unformed self except by claiming absolute intelligence?

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

There is nothing more important than claiming our power at this point in time because it will determine the future direction of our planet and our evolution.

Observe, he calls it his sheep, though a stray, a wandering sheep. He has a right to it (all souls are mine), and he will claim his own, and recover his right; therefore he looks after it himself: I have found it; he did not send a servant, but his own Son, the great and good Shepherd, who will find what he seeks, and will be found of those that seek him not.

That which falls off a lorry belongs to he who follows the lorry.

Our priests like to be called father, while claiming that they are fatherless.

There is no benefit of claiming to be a democratic state while you are not willing to practice the true virtues of democracy.

The fact is, successful relationships and healthy cultures are not built on the claiming of rights but on the yielding of rights.

Nobody can publish an article in a scientific journal claiming the Sun orbits the Earth, and for the same reason, you can't publish an article in a peer-reviewed journal claiming there's no global warming. Probably well-informed professional science journalists wouldn't publish it either. But ordinary journalists repeatedly did.

These seeds are pressed out and planted when man loses himself in a wild, mad state of joy, consciously feeling and claiming himself to be that which he formerly desired to be.

got presents. Trip gave me a belt knife with a leather grip, claiming that all boys should have something they can hurt themselves with.

It was an odd way to spend my day off. Not odd in the way that, say, dressing up in tin foil, claiming to be a potato, and asking people to bake me is. Besides, that was a one time deal, but only because I lost a bet. No,