Claiming Quotes
182 Claiming quotes by 161 unique authors
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Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but two or three…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn…
— Ayn Rand
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There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory…
— Caroline Glick
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Without animal research, polio would still be claiming thousands of lives each year.
— Albert Sabin
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It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most prominent…
— Jonathan Raban
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Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us to our integrity,…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people…
— Daniel Ellsberg
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I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.
— Eddy Grant
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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such…
— Bodhidharma
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Many people excuse themselves by claiming that they don't have to do work anymore because they are beyond it. They are simply afraid of getting…
— Frederick Lenz
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Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
— William Cowper
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Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping…
— Thomas Boswell
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No bird casts the seed on land to grow food for itself, nor do beasts plough and enclose fields claiming - this is mine, this…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need…
— Robert Genn
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claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of…
— Joseph Conrad
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Whores, instead of claiming what's rightfully yours. Pierced a hole in my heart from all the pain you caused, with no direction you left your…
— Ja Rule
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...claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.
— Thomas Huxley
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I think that people have been claiming hip-hop as being dead since the moment it started. I think there are people - and I can…
— El-P
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Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants, in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.
— Felix Frankfurter
Who Wrote These Claiming Quotes
161 authors contributed a total of 182 Claiming Quotes, led by these top contributors: