Claims Quotes · Page 9

The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products.

— Marion Nestle

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

God seeks comrades and claims love, The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

— Rabindranath Tagore

From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

— John Gay

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

— Anonymous

All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

— Warren G. Bennis

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

— Andre Gide

Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women.…

— Robert Jordan

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim…

— George Washington

It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you…

— Hannah Kent

Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to…

— William H. Prescott

There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes…

— Dan Simmons

To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and…

— Helmut Schoeck

It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

— Judith Butler

We're targeted as LGBTQ people because we make people nervous around sex and we practice desire or have the possibility of practicing…

— Amber Hollibaugh

The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent- they believe…

— Molly Ivins

So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was…

— Mark Leyner

The joy of hate reflects people who get off pretending to hate something, or hate you, in order to score political points.…

— Greg Gutfeld

My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has…

— Leland Ryken

Baal-hamon, one of Baal's names, means "the lord of wealth or abundance." Chuck Pierce believes, and I agree, that this is the…

— Dutch Sheets

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

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

Is not the real experience of each individual very limited? And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he…

— Charlotte Bronte

Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it,…

— Tom Holt

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years…

— Abraham Lincoln

Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any…

— Jacques Ellul

The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe…

— Hannes Alfven

If I ask you who is the most famous scientist who ever lived, or the greatest scientist who ever lived you'll say…

— Richard Lewontin

The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who…

— Timothy Garton Ash

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems…

— Douglas Adams

Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.

— Rumi

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

— Bill Maher

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

— Aeschylus

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Greg Saunier

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

— Walter Scott

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

— Keith Carradine

If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.

— James Surowiecki