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266 Claimed quotes by 232 unique authors

I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives… — Ishmael Beah
An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed. — Paul Theroux
Jesus may have had an immense sense of importance or destiny, but he never claimed to be the Son of God. — Paul Verhoeven
My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was never a violent, crazy person… — Chuck Palahniuk
As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks… — P.J. O'Rourke
Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our… — Varley O'Connor
I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service… — Stephen Hawking
The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system -… — Noam Chomsky
I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It… — Tom Stoppard
Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what would become their… — Elaine Pagels
On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first… — Nancy Gibbs
Only Jesus has prophecies made hundreds of years in advance made literally true. Only He did miracles; only His immediate followers claimed He died and… — Norman Geisler
She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face… — Anne Edwards
It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the… — Emily Murphy
Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed… — Ethan A. Hitchcock
I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart. — Jim Sullivan
All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population. — Ernst Mayr
Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had. — Walter Martin
I got a lot of flak for having Kirk as the lead because they all claimed it was a much harder sell, but no one… — Donal Logue
The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It… — Tia Carrere

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