Claim Quotes

#1. The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#2. One thing I'd learned growing up was that no matter who claimed you, you had to first claim yourself.

Ridley Pearson

#3. You're a boy playing in men's games, Sharpie, and you're going to lose unless you're a man. Are you man enough to fight me here? Put me down? Claim I was kicked by a horse in the night? You can try, Sharpie, but you're not man enough, are you?

Bernard Cornwell

#4. In other words, the claim I believe in God is nothing but a lie if it is not manifest in our lives, because one only believes in God insofar as one loves.

Peter Rollins

#5. Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.

Chris Marker

#6. We came to find me home, boy, but this is not the place. Me people once lived, here, 'tis true, but the darkness that creeped into Mithral Hall has put an end to me claim on it. I've no wish to return once I'm clear of the stench of the place, know that in yer stubborn head.

R.A. Salvatore

#7. When pro-life advocates claim that elective abortion unjustly takes the life of a defenseless human being, they are not saying they dislike abortion. They are saying it's objectively wrong, regardless of how one feels about it.

Scott Klusendorf

#8. I'm an eclectic assortment of power and pride. I don't need rules or labels. Though if there was one I would lay claim to every time, it is as simple as it is misunderstood. I am a witch.

Hollow Ryan

#9. The Rabia Balkhi, registered to Captain Eric Khan out of Pallas, was still just goods and people heading into the frontier to stake a claim. Fewer horses, maybe, but more fusion reactors.

James S.A. Corey

#10. Scientists who do deny their politics - who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex - are fooling both themselves and the public at large.

Anne Fausto-Sterling

#11. The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner, that he thinks it mere condescension in him; and that his goodness alone bestows upon you what you have no pretense to claim.

Lord Chesterfield

#12. In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

Emile Zola

#13. I wanted to hurt her like she was hurting me each time I looked at her. I wanted to mark her, claim her, let everyone know that she belonged to me and only me.

Mia Sheridan

#14. The prime minister has chosen to acknowledge publicly the sovereignty of God and the claim of God on her life. Hers is the challenge to live up to that claim.

Philip Robinson

#15. I sense him smiling
and laughing and looking at me
with eyes of a thousand aborted children
coming back to rightfully
claim their life, to claim the earth.

A.P. Sweet

#16. Although we cannot change the past, we can stake our claim on it and make it ours. We can know for ourselves where we have been and use that wisdom to build our future.

Ashley Warner

#17. Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result.

Ammianus Marcellinus

#18. Although the court recognizes his right to insist on his bond - to claim his pound of flesh - the law also prohibits him from shedding Antonio's blood.

Niall Ferguson

#19. Every piece of the globe has been conquered at least a handful of times." "And the conquerors promptly forgot that they stole it from someone else so that they could claim some sort of moral right to the land when someone else tried to take it away from them," I suggested.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#20. If only she could be bold enough, and brave enough, to claim the things she wanted: love, a purpose, a life. But could she be?

Jennifer Donnelly

#21. He'd follow her into hell to claim what was due to him.
Unfortunately, he suspected she was headed for heaven, which was barred to him.

Lorraine Heath

#22. Beauty is an internal light, a spiritual radiance that all women have, but most women hide - unconsciously denying its existence. What we do not claim, remains invisible.

Marianne Williamson

#23. They'll claim they wanted a legal arrest and a Miranda

Anonymous

#24. All is yours. Do not go seeking for that which you are. Appropriate it, claim it, assume it. Everything depends upon your concept of yourself. That which you do not claim as true of yourself, cannot be realized by you. The promise is

Neville Goddard

#25. One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain ... is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#26. Take refuge in your senses, open up to all the small miracles you rushed through. Become inclined to watch the way of rain when it falls slow and free ... Draw alongside the silence of stone until its calmness can claim you.

John O'Donohue

#27. In the end, the claim that just social structures would make works of charity superfluous masks a materialist conception of man: the mistaken notion that man can live "by bread alone" (Mt 4:4; cf. Dt 8:3) - a conviction that demeans man and ultimately disregards all that is specifically human.

Pope Benedict XVI

#28. The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

Norbert Wiener

#29. We cannot receive the mercy and forgiveness of God unless we repent, and we cannot claim to have repented of our sins if we are unmerciful towards the sins of others

John R.W. Stott

#30. Inerrancy means the word of God always stands over us and we never stand over the word of God. When we reject inerrancy we put ourselves in judgment over God's word. We claim the right to determine which parts of God's revelation can be trusted and which cannot.

Kevin DeYoung

#31. Claim your success. The moment you doubt is the moment you undermine it.

E.B. Davis

#32. Property is the foundation of every right we have, including the right to be free. Every legal claim, after all, is a claim to something-either a defensive claim to keep what one is holding or an offensive claim to something someone else is holding.

Roger Pilon

#33. I can definitely say the same thing [discussing Steffi Graf's claim that she had played against at least one top player who used steroids]. Steroids can really make a difference, physically and mentally. I'd be really disappointed if I had been ranked No. 2 behind someone who took steroids.

Chris Evert

#34. He, in his love songs, and his tales in prose,
was without peer
and if fools claim Limoges
produced a better, there are always those
who measure worth by popular acclaim,
ignoring principles of art and reason
to base their judgments on the author's name.

Dante Alighieri

#35. The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim ... to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.

Sigmund Freud

#36. If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.

John Locke

#37. There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards.

Sarah MacLean

#38. We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

Robert Collier

#39. I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.

J. C. Watts

#40. America's popular heroes have seldom been its great thinkers, and even less its scientists. The success of TV's 'Big Bang Theory,' which seems to give the lie to this claim, is more the exception that proves the rule.

Seth Shostak

#41. We do not tell - we show. We do not claim - we prove.

Ayn Rand

#42. Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.

Geraldine Brooks

#43. To claim that America's "culture of violence" is responsible for school shootings is tantamount to cigarette company executives declaring that environmental pollution is the chief cause of lung cancer.

Stephen King

#44. We just want to identify the "real" freaks, so we can feel closer to normal. In reality, not a single one of us is so magically normative as to claim the right to separate out the freaks from everyone else. We are all freaks to someone. Maybe even - if we're honest - to ourselves.

Kate Bornstein

#45. I wasn't obsessed by magic. People say, 'How you can you claim you practiced eight hours a day and weren't obsessed?' Well, people go to a job they don't even like for eight hours a day; it's not obsessive if it's something you like.

Ricky Jay

#46. There are some days we can claim and there are other days that claim us.

Kamand Kojouri

#47. How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?

Theodore Dalrymple

#48. I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

Vicky Hartzler

#49. I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.

Michael B. Jordan

#50. Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't we humanists sometimes claim that there is a common thread of humanistic values running through history across cultural and religious lines?

Dan Barker

#51. Tell you what, why don't we go ask her brothers what they think of your claim?"
"I'd rather beat you to a pulp.

Jennifer McKeithen

#52. My message for all my readers is: Don't believe in those who claim that youth is a passing disease you just have to get rid of. Don't believe, that maturity is a goal and an asset to go after. Nothing will ever be ready, that is what makes life interesting. Read!

Tuula Kallioniemi

#53. I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known.

S.A. Tawks

#54. Writing was the antijob, the fuck you to all jobs, her claim on her autonomy, what kept her feral and free.

Michelle Tea

#55. As the beloved son, I have to claim my full dignity and begin preparing myself to become the father.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#56. I am not here to make anyone happy. What I am here for is to claim my life, my mama's death, our losses and our triumphs, to name them for myself.

Dorothy Allison

#57. It seems to me like all these people claim to be the victim,
Acting like the whole entire world is out to get them.
Stand up on your own,
And prove that you are grown,
Because the life that you save may be your own.

Lee Majors

#58. When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

Vince Cable

#59. They claim they did all this because they love me, but I must say, I've never been loved in such a bizarre fashion.

George Takei

#60. Famine, plague and war will probably continue to claim millions of victims in the coming decades. Yet they are no longer unavoidable tragedies beyond the understanding and control of a helpless humanity.

Yuval Noah Harari

#61. His voice took on a thick silkiness to it that made her want to press her body closer. "Octavia, you are welcome to touch any part of my body you wish. Just be careful of what you start. Once I lay claim to something, or someone, I will not part with it or them willingly." - Kade Egon

Sunshine Taylor Reddick

#62. Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise.

Benjamin Graham

#63. Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task.

David Heinemeier Hansson

#64. The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

Alfred North Whitehead

#65. Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.

Sam Kean

#66. We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

Tzvetan Todorov

#67. The claim that somehow raw foods give you better energy, are more healthful, improve your immune system and all of that is simply not substantiated. And moreover, it's not biologically plausible.

Dennis Miller

#68. Professors and students claim to be on a quest for truth while denying that it exists or that anyone could identify it if it did. Such is the nihilistic atmosphere in major universities around the world.

Dave Hunt

#69. I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Tony Robbins

#70. A man who will steal for me will steal from me. Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal.

David McCullough

#71. I find 'Fatal Attraction' really romantic. I really like the seduction. Almost every time I see it, I'm surprised when it goes dark. I know that's the claim to fame, but I key into how genuinely romantic it is.

Shane Carruth

#72. I'm on a quest to claim absolute victory on every front.

Charlie Sheen

#73. If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it." But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness.

Charles Spurgeon

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

Tina McElroy Ansa

#75. I don't claim to have found the Truth, but I know it has found me.

Sara Groves

#76. That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.

Lawrence Hill

#77. I don't need to claim you. But I always, always want you.

Kit Rocha

#78. I wouldn't mind politicians lying to me, stealing from me, or senselessly making life difficult if they didn't try to claim they were looking out for my best interest. How refreshing it'd be to see a politician honest enough to admit he's dishonest.

Jarod Kintz

#79. I was bad at money but had amassed some. I couldn't claim that marriage was my real skill, but I was better at it than many. I'd had two previous husbands and a wife. I'd lost them to changes of predilection, without rancour - as I say, I wasn't bad at marriage. Scile was my fourth spouse.

China Mieville

#80. Henceforth an individual solace dear;
Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim
My other half: with that thy gentle hand
Seisd mine, I yielded, and from that time see
How beauty is excelld by manly grace.

John Milton

#81. Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs.

Esther Dyson

#82. Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don't love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a woman

Jessica Valenti

#83. People who excuse their faults and claim they didn't deserved to be punished - there are lots of them. But those who don't excuse their faults and admit they didn't deserve to be spared - they are few.

Zhuangzi

#84. Stop letting everyone else tell you what's wrong and right. Stake a claim! You cower when you could conquer.

Tahereh Mafi

#85. I should stalk over there and pee around his table to stake my claim. Wait ... what? Jeez, Kacey.

K.A. Tucker

#86. She smelled romantic, if he could claim romance as a scent, like a melting, sweet Alabama summer evening. The fragrance gathered in the hollow place between his heart and ribs.

Rachel Hauck

#87. I'm going to claim her so there's nothing to protect her from. I'll make her mine, fill her with my seed and it will plant there. She'll make an excellent mate and mother to my young."
-Brawn

Laurann Dohner

#88. Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.

Maureen Johnson

#89. There is one thing new in sexual mores and that is today's bisexual chic ... if you can't truthfully claim to be bisexual yourself, the next best thing is to reveal that one, or both, of your parents was.

Helen Lawrenson

#90. Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages.

David Dinkins

#91. Love may claim our hearts but lust will always claim our bodies. It is the traitor that lurks in every soul.

Anthony Ryan

#92. It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest.

Martin Rees

#93. The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.

Pankaj Mishra

#94. The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).

Martin Buber

#95. People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.

Erma Bombeck

#96. No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being.

Jose Rizal

#97. Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim.

Donna Lynn Hope

#98. What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God.

Kevin Michel

#99. Only so you can appeal to your God and pray Him to support and bless your courage, your work, your perseverance, your strength, your resolution, and with all these your claim on life.

Adolf Hitler

#100. Did she still love him like she said she always would? Time changes people and even those who claim undying love have a change of heart when they're hurt.

Ella Dominguez