Claimed Quotes

266 quotes by 232 authors

When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed… — Howard Blum
When people asked Socrates, â€˜What is wisdom?â€™ he always gave the same answer: â€˜I donâ€™t knowâ€™. In fact, Socrates never claimed to know much of… — Jim Rohn
Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I… — Jordan Peele
Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong. — John Katzman
Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share… — J. Philippe Rushton
The natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by water, by the… — Eberhard Arnold
Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence. — Paul Theroux
I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to… — Will Rogers
The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought… — Kurt Vonnegut
As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that… — Karl Marx
[Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years… — John Dos Passos
Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed… — Ron Fournier
I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil. — Uri Geller
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be. — Federico Fellini
Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use… — Joshua Foer
Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman! — William Hague
I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it. — Christopher Hitchens
George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that… — Bianca Jagger
I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements. — Shahrukh Khan

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