Claiming Quotes

182 Claiming quotes by 161 unique authors

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God. — Jim Elliot
I don't have anything against God. Far from it. But I don't understand Him. And I don't trust a lot of the people that go… — Jim Butcher
The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate:… — Charlotte Bronte
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley
Senator John Kyle claiming that over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Stephen Colbert: Over 90 percent, that is unbelievable...in that it… — Stephen Colbert
People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can… — Jeanette Winterson
Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself… — Louis Althusser
I’d missed him so much, it almost hurt. It started the moment I left the Keep and nagged at me all day. Every day I… — Ilona Andrews
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on… — Desmond Tutu
She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that… — Christine Feehan
I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley
Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women. — Maya Angelou
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation,… — Eric Hoffer
The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a way of acknowledging… — Martin Jacques
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism. — Stanley Hauerwas
After Huguette Clark died in 2011 at age 104, 19 relatives challenged her will, claiming she was mentally ill and had been defrauded by her… — Bill Dedman
In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the Bible are scientifically… — Stephen Kinzer
The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes. — Bernard Beckett
It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of… — Michael Leunig
Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all infidels working for… — Robert Fisk
The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their… — S. Jay Olshansky
When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history in a fantasy… — Guy Gavriel Kay
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the… — Henry Giroux
Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social conscience… — Charles Platt
After the Simpson trial, after all the bad things Cochran was claiming, I became the most investigated officer in the history of the LAPD. — Mark Fuhrman

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