Claimed Quotes
266 quotes by 232 authors
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It was as if nothing quite erased the initial shock of being kissed by someone who was not hers, a kiss that was stolen, claimed…
— Suki Kim
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I put a flower in someone's locker when I was 15 years old. This girl, called Maria. Maybe I was 14. She actually thought it…
— Robert Pattinson
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Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat.…
— Andrea Dworkin
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The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really…
— Richard Dawkins
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The catalyst that converts any physical location - any environment if you will - into a place, is the process of experiencing deeply. A place…
— Alan Gussow
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The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an…
— Marcel Proust
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Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives…
— Camille Paglia
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I can remember one time a guy told me, a guy that preached, he claimed to be a preacher, he claimed to be called of…
— Tim Conway
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What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating,
— Christopher Hitchens
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I had my back against the wall. He [Gary Hinman] said, I'm going to tell the police what you did to me. [] This guy…
— Unknown Author
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But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned,…
— Terry Pratchett
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But Adam and Eve thought that it was they who were determining the course they would follow, that they were only exercising their autonomous right…
— Robert L. Reymond
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The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That's…
— Adyashanti
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The impact of the Yemeni manuscripts is still to be felt. Their variant readings and verse orders are all very significant. Everybody agrees on that.…
— Unknown Author
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The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of the…
— Steven James
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Biblical backing for Mormon behavior is easy to find, although Mark Twain is reported to have denied its legitimacy to a Mormon. The Mormon claimed…
— Dennis McKinsey
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The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are…
— Phillip E. Johnson
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If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a…
— Lysander Spooner
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The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
— Edmund Spenser
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232 authors contributed a total of 266 Claimed Quotes, led by these top contributors: