Claims Quotes

He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.

For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.

Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material.

Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half

That claim was not intended to be a factual statement.

There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as [Buckminster Fuller] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or that aspect of nature.

A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be.

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel, a state that claims to represent all Jewish people and make me into a potential citizen.

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.

[David] Muir tried four or five times to get a straight answer about [Donald] Trump's idiotic claim that 3-5 million noncitizens voted, and Trump just flatly wouldn't engage.

I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.

If by now you're a little confused, don't be too hard on yourself. Life is confusing, and anyone who claims that she has all the answers has probably uncovered the wrong ones.

Men always liked me, because I was very damaged and unpredictable, my children's father claims that I have multiple personalities, but I don't.

I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

Now, con said grimly, "I go to kill a werewolf and claim my woman." ~Con

Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.

If some Western politician claims he is in a position to use the normal Western methods to feed and clothe 1.2 billion Chinese, we would be happily prepared to elect him president of China.

I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.

A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.

True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?

The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.

By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the truth and instead settled for a perfect incompleteness.

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

The more you claim your own destiny, the easier it will be to love unconditionally .

A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.

And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.

The claims of Christ are always on trial, and we remain under oath! We are his witnesses for truth.

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

In a media-saturated world, persistent hype lends unwarranted credulity to the wildest claims.

Even the most elitist director or author who claims that he doesn't care if his works are seen or not, then I have to think that he's either a liar or a hypocrite.

Trump's claims that he's making taxes more democratic for the people, but it actually is a vast sucking of income and wealth upward.

The problem is indeed that one party's debt finds its counterpart in some other party's savings. Not paying debts therefore involves annulling some other party's financial claims on the debtor.

Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a table.

Trump claims he'd be the "best jobs president that God ever created." But isn't his claim to fame firing people?

I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not.