Claims Quotes · Page 27

They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn

— Aeschylus

Conservatives claim [Hillary] Clinton campaign involved in satanic 'spirit cooking'.

— Bill Maher

Part of my claim to fame is that my first film was also Johnny Cash's first film.

— Keith Carradine

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

— Walter Scott

Usually if someone starts making universal claims, I tune right on out.

— Greg Saunier

Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.

— Derek Jarman

We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

— Friedrich Schiller

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

— John Burroughs

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it…

— William Hazlitt

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing…

— Anonymous

I accept perfect health as the natural state of my being. I now consciously release any mental patterns within me that could…

— Louise Hay

No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men,…

— Zeno of Citium

It is community and respect, of course, but the dead have more claims on you than what you might want to admit…

— Cormac McCarthy

The ID card was launched with fantastic claims about supposed benefits. In truth, it represented the worst of government.

— Damian Green

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to…

— Dana Rohrabacher

In a recent attack ad, the NRA claims that President Obama cares about his own children more than he cares about other…

— Jimmy Fallon

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims,…

— Anonymous

As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper…

— Walt Whitman

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have…

— Eugene Ionesco

Orthodox Jews, or, as they are known in the Talmud, the Really Chosen Ones, are committed to the idea that the entire…

— Jon Stewart

My opinion has always been this, that you ought to never give up as long as you live, even though they have…

— Halldór Laxness

The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful…

— Robert Kennedy

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

Its contempt for citizens ... is so routine, and so unlimited, that the agency has become a kind of Frankenstein, running wild…

— James Bovard

I find Chinese debates about their political system domestically, but also about China's claims in the international system, to be among the…

— Timothy Garton Ash

Infidelity and skepticism abound everywhere. In one form or another they are to be found in every rank and class of society.…

— J. C. Ryle

In the APS (American Physical Society) it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how…

— Ivar Giaever

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

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

— Frederick Marryat

The unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence.

— Eliza Parsons

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

— John Locke

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

— Samuel Smiles

if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.

— Naftali Bennett

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

— Olusegun Obasanjo

It would be incorrect to claim that our paper was an endorsement of CO2-induced global warming.

— Craig D. Idso

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

— William Faulkner

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

— Mahatma Gandhi