Quotes About Being Claimed

#1. She had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

D.H. Lawrence

#2. Dating takes too much time. I wanted you. I took you. You're mine. She shivered. Women's lib could say what it wanted. Being claimed by a sexy male still held loads of seductive charm.

Eve Langlais

#3. I cupped her chin and tilted it back, deepening the kiss, wanting to somehow claim her very soul. Funny thing was, it was my soul that was being claimed, my breath that was being stolen, and my heart that was pounding crazy fast in my chest.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#4. The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

#6. Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#7. Two choices. One future. I was so sick of running. So sick of hiding. So sick of being weak . I didn't run. I didn't deny it. Instead, I held my chin high and claimed all that I'd achieved. I'd won; they'd lost. So be it if my life was now over.

Pepper Winters

#8. To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty. Prayers to be successful must be claimed and appropriated. Assume the positive consciousness of the thing desired.

Neville Goddard

#9. To embrace the contingency of one's life is to embrace one's fate as an ephemeral but sentient being. As Nietzsche claimed, one can come to love that fate. But to do so one must first embrace it, though one instinctively recoils at such a prospect.

Stephen Batchelor

#10. To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

Jane Austen

#11. There are no rules. There are no guidelines. You have few supplies, and there's nothing to help you along the way. Go through the Flat Trans at the time indicated. Find open air. Go one hundred miles, directly north, to the safe haven. Make it or die.

James Dashner

#12. If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?

Emil M. Cioran

#13. In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.

Julian Assange

#14. I'm a person who likes to tackle challenges. Google was a challenge when I got there. I think AOL's a challenge. The way we run the company is a very team-focused environment.

Tim Armstrong

#15. Human society, they claimed, was a sort of monster, its main by-products being corpses and rubble.

Margaret Atwood

#16. Three Leahs to get to One Rachel.

Thomas Hardy

#17. If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.

Dan Castellaneta

#18. God, he asserted, was not contained in any Book, but was a Voice, which every human being could hear (and which most of us chose to ignore). The common name of that voice was Conscience; but it was a God by any reasonable definition, Stepney claimed.

Robert Charles Wilson

#19. If you want to get broken in good, put four girls on the road together in a van and tour up and down the country.

Valerie June

#20. I may not be the best mom. I may not even get back to being the average mother I once claimed to be. But I'm here. I'm getting back up. I'm not leaving. And I'm the mom God ordained for these fours souls, and therefore I am their best mom.

Gillian Marchenko

#21. Few years ago [Donald] Trump was being roasted by Comedy Central. They always have rules about things that you can't joke about. Donald Trump's rule at that time, the only thing that you couldn't joke about was a suggestion that he has less money that he claimed to.

Ben Domenech

#22. There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

Edward Abbey

#23. I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote.

Robert Carlyle

#24. I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn.

Anna Paquin

#25. Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#26. That sensation of being caught - claimed - challenged me on the deepest level.

Sylvia Day

#27. Always, it was claimed of her, she was strong and she was capable. You are not loved for being strong and capable if you are a female but if you are a female and you are strong and capable you will make your way without love.

Joyce Carol Oates

#28. But instead of feeling ashamed she was overwhelmed by a sense of her own power. She had resolved not to let people make her a victim, and she had proved she could keep her resolution.

Ken Follett

#29. My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.

Mel Brooks

#30. Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous step backwards
a step that has been responsible for more human misery than any other idea in known history.

Isaac Bonewits

#31. I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.

Megan Fox

#32. Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Thomas Wolfe

#33. It was as if nothing quite erased the initial shock of being kissed by someone who was not hers, a kiss that was stolen, claimed from her flippantly, a kiss so abrasively illicit that she seemed to deserve it, as though she was not worth much to begin with.

Suki Kim

#34. Start a new fashion, wear your heart on your sleeveSometimes you reach what's real just by making believeUnafraid, unashamedThere is joy to be claimed in this worldYou even might wind up being glad to be you.

Stephen Schwartz

#35. I like exotic guys who have a lot of sexual energy. I drive army tanks and I snowboard, so he has to keep up.

Berglind Icey