Claims Quotes · Page 20

I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.

— Anna Akhmatova

Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.

— Harrison Ford

No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand…

— N. T. Wright

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

— Olympia Dukakis

When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.

— Anonymous

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

— Noam Chomsky

We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.

— John Calvin

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a…

— Lord Byron

There is a claim coming from the West that says that all art must be outside any moral consideration. I can understand…

— Tariq Ramadan

What can God do for a liar who refuses to repent? Can the Lord save him? He can’t claim salvation. Baptizing him…

— J. Golden Kimball

For a product to carry a health claim on its package, it must first have a package, so right off the bat…

— Michael Pollan

Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So…

— George Coyne

I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that…

— Paul Fry

Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief…

— Stewart Udall

I did long-term re-insurance claims. Asbestos, health hazards, pollution. It was very boring. But I've got quite a mathematical brain and it…

— Ben Eine

The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the…

— Seth Godin

The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove…

— Noam Chomsky

Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word "race" has a fair claim to being the most…

— Jacques Barzun

While a forgery illegally exploits the elitist taste for rarity, a kitsch object insists on its anti elitist availability. The deceptive character…

— Matei Calinescu

We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a…

— Erich Fromm

Now to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life, I do this under protest and impelled by…

— Liliʻuokalani

Aren’t you afraid they’ll arrest you? (Shahara) I wasn’t a convict, Dagan. I was an illegally purchased slave. My owner has no…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Mr. [Donald] Trump, for five years, you perpetuated a false claim that the nation's first black president was not a natural-born citizen.…

— Lester Holt

It is one step, and a giant one, to see clearly and participate in the love that flows between the persons of…

— Bernadette Roberts

At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John…

— David Wong

But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the…

— Jacques Derrida

So when we call pain a problem, we claim we do not deserve it. We are even prepared to scuttle God to…

— John Gerstner

I think it's just yet another piece to cause confusion and I think that the 'so-called scientific debate' is very silly now…

— Joe Bastardi

The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no…

— David Friedrich Strauss

Truth is never our enemy, ever. So we should never freak out about people who claim to have discovered truth. If it's…

— Matt Chandler

Some European countries insist on saying that during World War II, Hitler burned millions of Jews and put them in concentration camps.…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I was surprised at the great lengths that the government goes to in order to deny eligible disability claims.”

— Steven Magee

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.

— Christopher Hitchens

Nobody should claim that the war [in Iraq] is over. But certainly it can be said that the regime is finished.

— John Howard

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

— Emily Dickinson

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

— Mary Parker Follett

Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.

— John Oliver

The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.

— Al Ries