Claim Quotes

1458 Claim quotes by 1109 unique authors

I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to… — J C Watts
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. — Wilhelm Wundt
I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly… — Thom Yorke
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is… — Frank Zappa
In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it. — Emile Zola
God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get… — Regina Brett
The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was… — Sam Harris
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this… — Christopher Hitchens
The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection… — John Ralston Saul
Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically… — Daniel Pennac
People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way… — Gregory Maguire
WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius. — Julian Barnes
For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy,… — Doris Lessing
Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion… — Ian Mcewan
Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or María, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under… — Pablo Neruda
The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes… — Niels Bohr
I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I… — Barry Goldwater
In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental… — Cornel West
I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book. — Kenneth Rexroth
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared… — Karl Popper
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim… — Khalil Gibran
The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those… — C.S. Lewis
Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are… — Matthew Scully
I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is… — Michael Chabon
Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But… — Marilynne Robinson

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