Top 18 Disclaim Quotes

#1. Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic
or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.

Irving Kristol

#2. Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it.

Howard Hughes

#3. I'm just glad you didn't get you greedy little claws on the OTHER sketchbook. THAT would have been embarrassing.

Michelle Hodkin

#4. Sometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own.

Terry Tempest Williams

#5. I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead.

James Weldon Johnson

#6. And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.

Simone De Beauvoir

#7. When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#8. To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.

Edward Gibbon

#9. The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

Thomas Hobbes

#10. There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.

Aldo Leopold

#11. PREVENTING TOO MANY ACTIVITIES The third quality of being a dharmic person is very interesting: it's the idea that we don't need to churn up a lot of things for us to do. We can simplify our lives through our body, speech, and mind. To

Lodro Rinzler

#12. Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.

Hyman Rickover

#13. Who am I, and where am I going? You are the answer to this question. You are here to ask the question, and to be the answer.

Michael Beckwith

#14. I am an obsessive garage cleaner - my wife and the neighbors make fun of me. I remember that my father was the same way, and now when I'm out there unearthing things in the garage, I realize I am becoming my dad!

Chris O'Donnell

#15. But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#16. How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

Evelyn Waugh

#17. "if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental hospital how do you expect to be able to live 'out in the world'?" How indeed?

Janet Frame

#18. As a lesbian I have no face, my own people disclaim me; but I am all races because there is the queer of me in all races.

Gloria Anzaldua

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