Claims Quotes · Page 15

Howard Dean dropped out of the race today. At least he can't claim his voice wasn't heard.

— Jay Leno

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

— Ian Hacking

Understand stakeholder symmetry: Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders.

— Warren G. Bennis

The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for exercise.

— Tommy Bolt

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

— Christopher Hitchens

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

— Anonymous

The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed - they died for what they claim to have seen.

— Andy Stanley

Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are wrong.

— Max Gallo

The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought…

— Anonymous

Each individual human being can claim the Spirit of Jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. In that Spirit…

— Henri Nouwen

My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any…

— Christopher Hitchens

It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will…

— Adolf Hitler

Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney…

— Conan O'Brien

How can you lay claim to faith, when you have no patience at all. Surely you must have heard the saying of…

— Abdul-Qadir Gilani

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

— Paul Halmos

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels…

— Camille Paglia

Of course it's also a lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a potato…

— Michael Pollan

If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that…

— Bertrand Piccard

The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there…

— William Lane Craig

We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this…

— Douglas Hofstadter

The Government which attacks its own innocent subjects has no claim to be called a civilised government. Bear in mind, such a…

— Lala Lajpat Rai

We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died longe ago.Even…

— Haruki Murakami

“The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which…

— Vaclav Havel

Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global…

— James Taylor

Let's not forget that for thousands of years the institution of marriage has been between a man and a woman. Until quite…

— Dallin H. Oaks

Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the…

— Eugene V. Debs

But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter…

— Richard Dawkins

Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes,…

— Anthony Giddens

No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only…

— Calvin Coolidge

I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius…

— Paul Laffoley

The underlying idea is that you can prevent disease by balancing your body's pH... None of these claims are true. Furthermore, your…

— Andrew Weil

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

— Rod McKuen

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got…

— Hunter S. Thompson

For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

— Carl Sagan

The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

— Peter Kropotkin

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

— Neil Gaiman

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

— Albert Einstein

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

— Herodotus

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

— Eleanor Antin