Claiming Quotes
182 Claiming quotes by 161 unique authors
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Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
— Francis Chan
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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
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...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
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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
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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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Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
— Jim Elliot
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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
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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
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All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
— Aldous Huxley
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
— Aldous Huxley
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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
— Maya Angelou
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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
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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
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Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.
— Stanley Hauerwas
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