Top 100 Claims To Quotes
#1. I have had my say, as he wished. Now the book belongs, as he points out, to the world he claims to speak for.
Julian Darius
#2. Germany has solemnly recognized and guaranteed France her frontiers as determined after the Saar plebiscite ... We thereby finally renounced all claims to Alsace-Lorraine, a land for which we have fought two great wars.
Adolf Hitler
#3. It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
#4. Never try to time the bond market. Anyone who claims to know the future of interest rates is certifiable.
Jane Bryant Quinn
#5. The gospel never claims to produce perfect people in this life, and these individuals might or might not be genuine believers in the first place.
Vincent Cheung
#6. With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific ... As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit.
Robert Musil
#7. Anyone who claims to know all the answers doesn't really know very much. - 1 Corinthians 8:2
Gary Chapman
#8. Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
Bernard Cornwell
#9. Don't know if a God exists, but anyone who claims to be certain of His absence probably lacks humility more than faith.
Wayne Gladstone
#10. Scoff if you wish, but there is something morally dangerous in this endless variety of amusements that our era claims to provide. Soon there will be no word for "contentment" in the English language, for we shall no longer feel content and thus have no need to describe it.
Kim Wright
#11. Your love of liberty
your respect for the laws
your habits of industry
and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.
George Washington
#12. And this is why I have concluded that although every racial, ethnic, and religious group in the United States claims to want a piece of the American dream, there is no group that apologizes more for its success than black people.
Lawrence Otis Graham
#13. For me, it's always difficult when a historical film claims to depict or represent a reality that none of us can know, that is always different. It's always the case. We never know what happened then.
Michael Haneke
#14. The cross of Christ is the all-sufficient ground for the salvation of sinners. It claims to be sturdy enough to support the whole weight of our guilt all by itself. Therefore, to boast in the cross properly at all is to boast in the cross alone.
Philip Graham Ryken
#15. Alex has met them at the restaurant with his latest girlfriend, black-banged Lola, a performance artist who claims to have studied magic.
Ron Childress
#16. Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions.
Nancy Stahl
#17. All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.
George Orwell
#18. A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.
Simone Weil
#19. The body of Christ needs to mature until we can distinguish a true prophetic word from merely the word of a prophet. Many modern Christians are afraid to reject anything spoken by one who claims to be a prophet or prophetess.
Iverna Tompkins
#20. Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.
Calvin Miller
#21. 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
#22. She is a famous artists' model who claims to have been christened Topaz - even if this is true there is no law to make a woman stick to a name like that.
Dodie Smith
#24. People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can't live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
Karl Lagerfeld
#25. Have you guys ever ghost hunted in Hawaii? No? Well, I have this fat friend ... I shouldn't say fat, that might offend him, but he's Samoan and claims to have seen ghosts.
CM Punk
#26. The Tea Party claims to want small government.
Penn Jillette
#27. Ahmed is not a murderer like my father, but within the walls of our apartment - among people he claims to love - he is every inch a terrorist.
Zak Ebrahim
#28. Everyone claims to be a billionaire these days. But you're not really a billionaire until you spend your billions. - OVERHEARD AT THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
Kevin Kwan
#29. Frederick knows better than to believe, as his wife sometimes claims to, that all things happen for a reason. Things happen; it is up to us to invent for them a purpose.
Stefan Merrill Block
#30. Truth is harder to find when everyone claims to own it.
L.M. Fields
#31. He is the devil! (Hugh)
Spawned of hell and suckled on the teat of a demon. I make no claims to anything else. (Draven)
Kinley MacGregor
#32. Anyone who promises that everything can be made the way it used to be with the recipes of the past betrays in reality the people he claims to represent. We must never participate in this betrayal and we must never allow this betrayal.
Matthias Platzeck
#33. The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.
Alain De Botton
#34. There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.
Eugene Ionesco
#35. I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
Claude Monet
#36. Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
#37. 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
#38. A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.
Plato
#39. In my opinion, anyone who claims to speak for God is probably talking out of the wrong end, anyway.
Martha Brockenbrough
#40. 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.
Stephanie Mills
#41. Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
J.M. Coetzee
#42. Anyone who claims to be intrigued by the "intellectual challenge of the markets" is not a trader. The markets are as intellectually challenging as a fistfight. Ultimately, trading is an exercise in self-mastery and endurance.
Ralph Vince
#43. 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
#44. 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
#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. Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed ...
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#48. This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under the age of thirty ... It may play an important and increasing role in the consolidation of a new world order.
H.G.Wells
#49. If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.
Peter Kreeft
#50. There are moments when we resort to senseless formulations and advance absurd claims to hide straightforward feelings.
Elena Ferrante
#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. When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.
Matisyahu
#53. To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when the book world was in distress, offering a vital new source of sales.
George Packer
#54. Just because a person claims to be a Christian does not necessarily mean that he is one.
Billy Graham
#55. there's a big difference between death threats and love letters--even if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love you. Of course, considering I once tried to kill someone I loved, maybe I had no right to judge.
Richelle Mead
#56. Every church or individual Christian who claims to be Spirit-led must be Word-fed. If we want to know more of the Spirit's power in our lives, we would be wise to fill ourselves with the riches of his
Bob Kauflin
#57. The God of Christianity never claims to be fair. He goes beyond fair. The Bible teaches that he decided not to give us what we deserve
that's mercy. In addition, God decided to give us what we don't deserve
we call that grace.
Andy Stanley
#58. A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be,
Joshua Ferris
#59. And since the gospel does not come as a disembodied message, but as the message of a community which claims to live by it and which invites others to adhere to it, the community's life must be so ordered that it "makes sense" to those who are so invited.
Lesslie Newbigin
#60. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.
Nathan Hale
#61. For a woman who claims to be an open book, you hide so much." He runs his thumb down the side of my neck, over the hollow in my collarbone. "Next time you strip for me, you're taking off more than your clothes.
Lexi Ryan
#62. Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
Zhuangzi
#63. For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history, or the solution for all the "riddles of the universe," or the intimate knowledge of the hidden universal laws which are supposed to rule nature and man.
Hannah Arendt
#64. If we subject religious claims to a lesser degree of scrutiny, we should not be surprised if religious people subject us to a greater degree of servitude.
Stifyn Emrys
#65. 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
#66. ... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified ... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonable desire and claims to give life a form it does not have.
Albert Camus
#67. 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
#68. Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
R. W. Apple Jr.
#69. Jesus never claims to prevent us from feeling "weary and burdened." He simply invites the weary and burdened to find rest in Him. Like
Nathan Davis
#70. We are wrong to despise the body: it's so much less bad than the soul. Your soul claims to want things that your body refuses. When your soul is as honest as your body, you will be able to say my name.
Amelie Nothomb
#71. Whoever claims to be smart, but does not concentrate on the Hereafter, is lying.
Wahb Ibn Munabbih
#72. Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!
Rian Johnson
#73. Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous debate, and in many respects that's the secret of its success.
Carl Sagan
#74. Ask courageous questions.
Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.
Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny.
Be aware of human fallibility.
Cherish your species and your planet.
Carl Sagan
#75. Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.
John Oliver
#76. Scientists have wonderfully explained the organization of the universe, but that's really all it claims to do, and I think it does that very successfully.
Simon Conway Morris
#77. Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.
Suzy Kassem
#78. If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
Albert Camus
#79. Scepticism, ironically, draws its life's blood from claims to have a good deal of knowledge. For example, your friends claim to know, 'Since every possible option has not been explored, nothing can be said for certain.' That statement is itself a claim to knowledge!
William Lane Craig
#80. I have to admit that trying to force me into admitting I love you is pretty low, and such an uncommon trait for someone who claims to be a submissive.
Johnny Stone
#81. When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So, when someone claims to be an English stand-up comedian in India, he'd better be very good if he's going to make a life of it.
Vir Das
#82. You may say you're "anti-status," but if you filled a room with people who said that, they would soon form a status hierarchy based on how anti-status each person claims to be.
Loretta Graziano Breuning
#83. 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
#84. But the Negro's experience of the white world cannot possibly create in him any respect for the standards by which the white world claims to live.
James Baldwin
#85. 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
#86. Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.
Rush Limbaugh
#87. Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.
Chuck Klosterman
#88. 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
#89. Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.
Grover Norquist
#91. this lightness is something created in the writing, using the linguistic tools of the poet, independent of whatever philosophical doctrine the poet claims to be following.
Italo Calvino
#92. Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.
Edmund Husserl
#93. 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
#94. Despite all claims to the contrary, we have not been called by God to be inspectors of others production or quality of 'fruit'.
R. Alan Woods
#95. Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.
Paul D. Boyer
#96. God, come down, if you're really there -
Well, you're the one who claims to care!
Morrissey
#97. It is a pity that ... the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.
Christopher Hitchens
#98. I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.
James Randi
#99. Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.
Chuck D
#100. The whole idea of a democratic application of skepticism is that everyone should have the essential tools to effectively and constructively evaluate claims to knowledge.
Carl Sagan
