Claims Quotes
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.
Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.
If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.
None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.
I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.
A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.
To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.
Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses.
It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.
Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed.
Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
An Internet rumor claims that John Kerry had an affair with a young woman. When asked if this was similar to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, a spokesman said 'Close, but no cigar.'
The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.
In my home, who is my boss? If you ask my wife she'll say certainly not her. She claims that she can't make me do anything and so she's not my boss. I am. I'm pretty sure, maybe.
I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.
As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same.
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.
The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.
None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about ones health. But specific claims when made in print are taken at their value
I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get repeated publicity.
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.
Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.
It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.