Claims Quotes · Page 22

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

— Thomas Jefferson

Only they who fulfill God's commands have a claim on the Lord.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

— Sam Harris

You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.

— Albert Mohler

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

— Frank Gehry

I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.

— Marianne Williamson

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this…

— Parker Palmer

The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a…

— Walter Kaufmann

In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically extended lifespan, in spite of bold…

— S. Jay Olshansky

Tao can be used by anybody, but it does not beling to anyone. It is just like air; everyone can breathe the…

— Henry Chang

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere,…

— Christopher Hitchens

The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of…

— Timothy Keller

I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that…

— Hermann Goring

Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are…

— Elaine Chao

Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is…

— Guy Murchie

Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any…

— John Calvin

In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter."…

— Kate DiCamillo

Do we claim to believe in God? He's a missionary God. You tell me you're committed to Christ. He's a missionary Christ.…

— John Stott

Maybe [Sodom and Gomorrah] isn't really about homosexuality, but about rape. If the angels had been female, and the men of Sodom…

— Alex Sanchez

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend…

— Victor Hugo

In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest…

— Horace Mann

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose…

— Walter Scott

Prophecy and history predict and record a great and universal apostasy which was to be followed by a restoration as predicted by…

— Hugh B. Brown

It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis…

— David Berman

We're all in the race game, so to speak, either consciously or unconsciously. We can overtly support white-supremacist racial projects. We can…

— Robert Jensen

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

— Glenn Greenwald

No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.

— Karl Barth

I'm starting to like muggers more than congressmen. At least the muggers don't claim they're doing you a favor.

— Paul Jacob

“Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.”

— Heraclitus

These vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are totally and absolutely false.

— Donald Trump

I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them.

— Sarah Moore Grimke

The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.

— Lucian Freud

We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.

— Neil Postman