I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Claim what is yours. You belong any where on this Earth you want to. — Tina McElroy Ansa Copy Share Image
It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself. — Franz von Papen Copy Share Image
When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Germany has solemnly recognized and guaranteed France her frontiers as determined after the Saar plebiscite... We thereby finally renounced all claims to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The only food he has ever stolen has been down on a coffee table. He claims that he genuinely believed it to… — Jean Little Copy Share Image
Even the most elitist director or author who claims that he doesn't care if his works are seen or not, then I… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No… — Sabrina Ward Harrison Copy Share Image
The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Satan wants to claim our souls and those of our children. He want our marriages and our families to fail. He wants… — John H. Groberg Copy Share Image
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page.… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Advance warning of Katrina's path was wrested from mute Nature by meteorological calculations and satellite imagery. God told no one of His… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or… — Giovanni Giocondo Copy Share Image
The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Unlike many other Celts, I cannot claim that Celtic was my first love but I can say that it will be my… — Jock Stein Copy Share Image
Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
(Those women whom the distaff no longer claims nor spun cloth) driven made, mad, mad by Bacchus. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
