Claiming What's Mine Quotes

#1. There is, in short,
something terribly wrong with claiming to be a devout Christian while hating one or another of the fellow believers.

Ben Witherington III

#2. If you don't know what you want, and you won't tell me specifics, then I'll tell you what I think you need. You're mine now, Ashleigh. I'm claiming you. I'm claiming Kate too. If you want to be with me then I call the shots. And I've made my first decision.

J.A. Huss

#3. Some books claiming to be exhaustive are only exhausting to read.

A.W. Tozer

#4. Given the manifest frailty of men, given the long succession of delusions that was their history, what could be more preposterous than claiming oneself the least deluded, let alone privy to the absolute?

R. Scott Bakker

#5. We don't get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it. If we're talking about a Claiming Moon, this is about

Kami Garcia

#6. The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing.

Lucian

#7. Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Toni Morrison

#8. It is then possible to say that rebellion, when it develops into destruction, is illogical. Claiming the unity
of the human condition, it is a force of life, not of death. Its most profound logic is not the logic of
destruction; it is the logic of creation.

Albert Camus

#9. Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.

Graham Kendrick

#10. I can't have you without claiming you for forever."
"Then claim me. I'll claim you too."
"That's exactly what I'm afraid of.

Aly Martinez

#11. No bird casts the seed on land to grow food for itself, nor do beasts plough and enclose fields claiming - this is mine, this is for my children and children's children -.

Sathya Sai Baba

#12. Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.

J.I. Packer

#13. Creating without claiming. Doing without taking credit. Guiding without interfering. This is primal virtue.

Lao-Tzu

#14. I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.

Elizabeth Lesser

#15. When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models by three five-year plans. It's a nightmare. We are creating a concept of the enemy, just as they did in the Soviet era. This is a giant step backward.

Vladimir Sorokin

#16. Blame someone else, that's always your first instinct. And if you can't blame someone else, then start claiming the problem isn't a problem anyway. Rewrite the rules, shift the goalposts.

Julian Barnes

#17. The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.

Tecumseh

#18. It was a kiss that slowed down as it went, a great, long adoring kiss, Tadhg slanting his mouth first to one side, then the other, drowning her in the unyielding, unstoppable claiming of his kiss.

Kris Kennedy

#19. He arrived tentatively at his own idea, that melancholy arose from natural, sometimes beneficent forces. Talking about it in plain human terms was his first step toward claiming his own ground as a person who, through no fault of his own, needed help.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#20. He was so handsome I felt like filing a civil lawsuit against his parents, claiming punitive damages, pain and suffering to my psyche.

Penny Reid

#21. Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

Queen Victoria

#22. I wish politicians the world over would stop claiming credit for economic growth that happens despite them, not because of them. Grow up ...

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#23. "Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you make

Claude C. Hopkins

#24. I'm not buried in that plot, Karoline. Some woman claiming to be me from the future is."
"Why do they call it a plot, anyway?"
"Because this is how every story ends.

Brian K. Vaughan

#25. He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world.

Coco Chanel

#26. I think it's unworkable. What are we going to have, people like in contentious divorces suddenly claiming that one or the other of them should go to jail because once he or she spanked the child.

Sean Hannity

#27. President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.

Daniel Ellsberg

#28. American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

Diane Wakoski

#29. Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

Bo Bennett

#30. She'd once been appalled to hear of women claiming PMS as a defense for murder. Now she understood. She could happily murder someone today! In fact, she felt like there should be some sort of recognition for her remarkable strength of character that she didn't.

Liane Moriarty

#31. If we accept a mere tenth of what animal-rights activists are claiming, then modern industrial agriculture might well be the greatest crime in history. When

Yuval Noah Harari

#32. Your grandparents often found themselves in dark rooms, mapping out each other's bodies, claiming whole countries with their mouths.

Warsan Shire