Claims One Quotes

#1. No two sacrifices are the same, and yet all are, in the end. It is the commitment to belong, wholly, to that which claims one.

Jacqueline Carey

#2. 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.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#3. 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.

John Brunner

#4. 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.

Edwidge Danticat

#5. By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course.

Henry Mitchell

#6. Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken

M T Anderson

#7. A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but
surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason
better.

Paul Halmos

#8. There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.

Tina Fey

#9. Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards ... to the days of Lord Salisbury'.

Francis Maude

#10. There is no forgiveness when one who claims a superiority falls below the standard.

Frantz Fanon

#11. When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.

Frederick Lenz

#12. The more one is aware of political bias the more one can be independent of it & the more one claims to be impartial the more one is biased.

George Orwell

#13. I envy your Christian God. He is three and He is one, He is dead and He is alive, He is everywhere and He is nowhere, and He demands that you worship Him, but claims nothing else is worthy of worship. There's room in those contradictions for a man to believe in anything or nothing, but

Bernard Cornwell

#14. Whenever you hear news about jobless claims or the unemployment rate, you should translate that in your mind to one simple phrase: Stay in school.

Adam Davidson

#15. Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.

Sam Harris

#16. I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.

Ward Cunningham

#17. Redeemed by the blood of Christ, you are his forever, and where he is, there must his people be. You are loved too much to be cast away with reprobates. Shall one dear to Christ perish? Impossible! Hell cannot hold thee! Heaven claims thee! Trust in thy Surety and fear not!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#18. This is the culture of the micro-aggression, where people literally seek out opportunities to be offended....Victim status is so desirable that it's constantly faked or exaggerated, and claims that one is not a victim are met with indignation.

David French

#19. To make a claim of ownership implies a claim against others. That is, others must refrain from interfering with your use of that thing. As such the very act of the body occupying its standing room is to make a claim against others because only one body can occupy the space at a time.

Daniel Alexander Brackins

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. 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.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skillful diplomatist, than in the soundness or justice of their claims.

James Ellis

#23. Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.

Halton Arp

#24. The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.

Gilles Deleuze

#25. In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment - or a few - where charges of elitism and claims of commonness are wielded by presidential candidates like a sword and shield: 'Vote for me 'cause I'm one of you. It's the other guy who's out of touch.'

John Ridley

#26. Someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and riven ... I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of an event.

Harold Brodkey

#27. Experts indicate that you should aim for consistent weight loss of about one to two pounds per week, so you should remain realistic - you aren't going to lose 40 pounds per week (no matter what any diet product claims).

Phillip C. McGraw

#28. No one who beats his wife or children, spreads slander in a congregation, or harbors perpetual unforgiveness in his or her heart is full of the Spirit, no matter how many supernatural gifts he or she claims to have.

Craig S. Keener

#29. How can one maintain a theological confidence in what one claims to be _true_ while acknowledging the existence of multiple religions that also claim to be _true_?

Namsoon Kang

#30. Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.

Evangelista Torricelli

#31. Well, there are some who claim I'm more of one nation than another, but that's not true, Eddie. I'm of all nations, I play no favorites.

Harry Segall

#32. Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

Sam Harris

#33. A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

Wallis Simpson

#34. When you look at the history of wars, they ultimately revolve around one claim: "My god is better than yours."

Yair Lapid

#35. It might be the white woman or man our son or daughter will marry and the white woman or man our grandson or granddaughter will marry, all of them wading into the future until one of our line claims to be Sicilian. Leave instructions: the granddaughter of our granddaughter shall be named Cicily.

Terrance Hayes

#36. Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world

Terry Eagleton

#37. So about this Leon god thing? I don't know of any gods named Leon. Is he like the red-headed stepchild god that no one claims?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#38. One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen's claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#39. The Gospel of Thomas claims to be the secret sayings of Jesus. There are 114 of them, so it says many things, but the central message is that Jesus is the one who reveals the divine light that brought the universe into being, and that you and I also reveal that light.

Elaine Pagels

#40. Just because a person claims to be a Christian does not necessarily mean that he is one.

Billy Graham

#41. I believe we should follow the text of every law, even (a) law I disagree with, it's one of the real differences
if you look at President Obama and the lawlessness, if he disagrees with a law he simply refuses to follow it or claims the authority to unilaterally change.

Ted Cruz

#42. One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#43. Everything that is experienced through the five senses is all 'discharge'. It is due to one's merit karmas that everything works according to one's wishes, but he claims, 'I did it' and when one faces losses, he will say, 'God did it' or 'my horoscope is unfavorable'.

Dada Bhagwan

#44. In politics and in war, monsters are defined by which side of a fight a man claims. He is still a man to those who share his beliefs, perhaps even a hero. To those that oppose his philosophy, he is a beast, a creature, one of a thousand unspeakable demons clashing over an ideal.

Lee Thomas

#45. The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible.

Meir Soloveichik

#46. He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.

Neil Tennant

#47. An intellectual is some one who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensates for his inadequacies.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#48. No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.

Paul Kurtz

#49. No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.

Wendell Berry

#50. Berkeley , Hume, Kant , Fichte , Hegel , James , Bergson all are united in one earnest attempt, the attempt to reinstate man with his high spiritual claims in a place of importance in the cosmic scheme.

David Hume

#51. 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 publicity.

Robert Winston

#52. People come to the Bible with expectations that do not fit the Bible, and this clash becomes one main reason, though not the only one, why people do not find the Bible's claims acceptable.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#53. Knowledge and education in the hands of one who claims no higher accountability or authority than one's own individuality is power in the hands of a fool.

Ravi Zacharias

#54. I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

Glenn Greenwald

#55. What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.

Sarada Devi

#56. With no evidence for an afterlife, we should recognize the true value of our current lives as our one and only shot at happiness. Wasting it on unfounded claims and ancient myths is an absolute tragedy.

Armin Navabi

#57. One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I.

Matthew Lesko

#58. In fact, the resistance to such claims may well come from the constant impulse to resist the Lordship of Jesus, the one through whom it is accomplished. Paul lived in a world where other 'lords' reigned supreme, and resented alternative candidates for their position. So do we. ROMANS

N. T. Wright

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#60. That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.

John Calvin

#61. 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.

Michio Kaku

#62. God, come down, if you're really there -
Well, you're the one who claims to care!

Morrissey

#63. Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.

Akbar

#64. By 'aha' she means 'one minute' Stephano claims he knows nothing about snakes, the next he claims he is an expert! By 'aha' she means 'Stephano has been lying to us'. By 'aha' she means 'we've finally exposed his dishonesty to you'! By 'aha' she means 'aha'!

Lemony Snicket

#65. I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present exactly to ascertain.

Henry Fox Talbot

#66. A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

William Hazlitt

#67. The whole world dislikes kashays (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed) and yet, all the kashays of the world are done willfully. One doesn't like to be angry and yet he claims anger is necessary.

Dada Bhagwan

#68. Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis..

Thomas Kuhn

#69. Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very 'risk the [Constitution's] Establishment Clause was designed to preclude.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#70. My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing
by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

Dallas Willard

#71. While I can have my mornings to myself," said she, "it is enough - I think it is no sacrifice to join occasionally in evening engagements. Society has claims on us all; and I profess myself one of those who consider intervals of recreation and amusement as desirable for everybody.

Jane Austen

#72. Thus when an interpretation of the world, an ideology, for example, claims to explain everything, one thing remains inexplicable, namely, the interpretive system itself. And with that, every claim to completeness and finality fails.

Paul Watzlawick

#73. In the ensuing discussion at the Manila workshop, I compared the search for a responsible mine to the pursuit of a mythical beast that people believe in because they have heard stories of its existence, even though no one claims to have seen it.18

Stuart Kirsch

#74. High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.

Anthony Giddens

#75. But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

Barack Obama

#76. the truth is true even if no one believes it, and untrue claims are still untrue even if everyone believes them.

Armin Navabi

#77. One thing is certain: Nothing will set you apart from culture more than the exclusive claims of Christianity. And it is here that we must intentionally set ourselves apart-because if we do not, we will have no message for the world!

R. Kent Hughes

#78. Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim

Shinzen Young

#79. A white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward.

Naomi Wolf

#80. I have witnessed the pleasant result of producing a human who faithfully claims to be a Christian, but who on some fundamental level does not think Christianity actually works. And just one Christian of this type turns off dozens from trying out Christianity for themselves.

Geoffrey Wood

#81. A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

Richard Dawkins

#82. In Newcastle, Kurt announced from the stage, "I am a homosexual, I am a drug user, and I fuck pot-bellied pigs," another classic Cobainism, though only one of his three claims was true.

Charles R. Cross

#83. One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.

Jerry Saltz

#84. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.

Annie Dillard

#85. I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean.

Robin Wasserman

#86. When I need journalistic honesty, I have to turn to Al Jazeera, why is that? One cannot even deny the Holocaust in Europe, question 9/11 in America (unless you want the Ward Churchill treatment), but the West claims they're all about free speech.

Remi Kanazi

#87. Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Will Rogers

#88. I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

Al Yankovic

#89. Americans have come to define liberty negatively, as lack of dependence, the right not to be obligated to others. Independence came to mean immunity from social claims on one's wealth or time.

Jennifer Senior

#90. You only have to glance at the daily news to see how passions are stirred by claims of exclusive loyalty to one's own kin, one's own clan, one's own country, and one's own church. These ties that bind are vital to our communities and our lives, but they can also be twisted into a noose.

Bill Moyers

#91. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Joseph Conrad

#92. I don't pretend to be an expert on intellectual property law, but I do know one thing. If a music industry executive claims I should agree with their agenda because it will make me more money, I put my hand on my walletand check it after they leave, just to make sure nothing's missing.

Janis Ian

#93. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

Abraham Lincoln

#94. A new report claims that William Shakespeare was a marijuana user and may have been high when he wrote some of his plays. Which explains that one line: 'To be, or not to be ... Wait, what was the question?'

Jimmy Fallon

#95. Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues of our time.

Pal Brekke

#96. As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

Jacques Chirac

#97. All that young people are promised today are the rewards of a shallow materialism and a degree that is defined primarily as a job credential, one that ironically does not even live up to its own claims of guaranteeing either decent employment or a better way of life.

Henry Giroux

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

Matthew McConaughey

#99. No one has more trouble than the person who claims to have no trouble

Taiichi Ohno

#100. Victim-stancing - whereby the offender claims and believes that s/he is the real victim (one of the most prevalent sophistries in the false memory controversies)

Harvey L. Schwartz