Claiming Quotes

182 Claiming quotes by 161 unique authors

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is… — Michael Crichton
My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is… — Patti Davis
I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or… — Anthony Hamilton
In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among… — Ismail Haniyeh
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and… — John Lennon
As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the… — Rush Limbaugh
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. — Toni Morrison
I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong. — Bill Nye
Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default. — Joy Page
At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody… — Rob Sheffield
I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates. — John Shelby Spong
Many of the prophets of Jesus's time were thought to just be mad men, just sort of crazy people who were claiming to channel the… — Reza Aslan
Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash - Adobe's popular technology for playing multimedia content inside a… — Evgeny Morozov
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
We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it… — Gary Gygax
All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and… — Aldous Huxley
In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to… — Dean Koontz
Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God. — Salman Rushdie
See, the ‘small stuff’ is what makes up the larger picture of our lives. Many people are like you, young man. But their perspective is… — Andy Andrews
Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God. — Francis Chan
Girls get screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how… — Ellen Hopkins
...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought:… — Arthur Rimbaud
We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being… — Jeanette Winterson
Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that… — Bell Hooks

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