Claims Quotes

Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.

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

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.

We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.

Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.

Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long... If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls.

The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.

Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do.

Claim what is yours. You belong any where on this Earth you want to.

Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.

... Love is heaven and claims its own.

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.

No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

I have fantasies of burning down an insurance company just so THEY have to make a claim.

A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.

I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.

Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels in Ukraine with impunity.

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

Democracy works when people claim it as their own

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.

In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.

Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.

It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money.

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.