Claims Quotes · Page 2

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

— David Korten

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

— C. Wright Mills

Democracy works when people claim it as their own

— Bill Moyers

First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.

— Martin Yan

Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence.

— Christopher Hitchens

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

— Joseph Conrad

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

— Penn Jillette

No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.

— Odetta

Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

— George Bernard Shaw

Jesus cannot be just liked. His claims make us either kill him or crown him.

— Timothy Keller

Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do.

— Laozi

I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.

— Gloria Estefan

I don't claim to have an answer to every question, but I promise you I have a question for every answer.

— David Lander

I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.

— Khushwant Singh

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

— Tullian Tchividjian

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

— Samuel Johnson

Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor…

— William C. Bryant

Some of us claim that he was a messiah, and some think that he was just a man with very special powers.…

— Neil Gaiman

My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no…

— Claude Monet

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station…

— Thomas Bulfinch

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a…

— Harold Rosenberg

Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity,…

— Mary Baker Eddy

If we love the sea as much as we claim to we'll do everything we possibly can to keep it healthy. Otherwise…

— Tim Winton

And let no one suppose that I claim that just living can be taught for, in a word, I hold that there…

— Isocrates

Now, as there is an infinity of possible universes in the Ideas of God, and as only one of them can exist,…

— Gottfried Leibniz

In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment - or a few - where charges of elitism and…

— John Ridley

And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even…

— Robert Jordan

What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but…

— Carl Sagan

The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never…

— Peter Drucker

A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human…

— L. Neil Smith

Books proliferate, and occasionally sell in very large numbers, which claim to have found the rule, or small set of rules, which…

— Paul Ormerod

Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about…

— Allen W. Wood

I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you…

— Terry Goodkind

After a short period of time in Pakistan, it's clear that drones are not a security solution. If you believe in drones,…

— Robert Greenwald

I do think there is an enhanced awareness of insecurity and vulnerability that induces anxiety that creates pressure on teachers and administrators…

— Richard A. Falk

If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I…

— Frederick Marryat

Perhaps the dumbest of these story lines is that [Pope] Francis has re-opened conversation and debate in a Church that had been…

— George Weigel

This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of…

— Mark Steyn

When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a…

— Anonymous