Top 100 Quotes About Claims
#1. Dywen now, he says we need to learn to ride dead horses, like the Others do. He claims it would save on feed. How much could a dead horse eat?
George R R Martin
#2. Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.
William Bernbach
#3. 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
#4. Whoever claims to be smart, but does not concentrate on the Hereafter, is lying.
Wahb Ibn Munabbih
#5. Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.
Noam Chomsky
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#9. Be very focused. Do your homework so your research and claims are unassailable. Make sure it is bulletproof and then make sure you are really focused. The thing I find is that the issues are usually so large that you try to cover a lot of ground. That's a natural impulse.
Amy Ziering
#10. Thus the 'fortune-teller' is trying to foresee something that is really quite unforeseeable. This is characteristic of all forms of foreseeing. And precisely because what they 'see' is so vague, it is hard to repudiate fortune-tellers' claims.
Jostein Gaarder
#11. We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.
R.C. Sproul
#12. 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
#13. Dr Danson made a series of claims about violent assaults on three prisoners by staff at Barlinnie. Three prison officers subsequently appeared in court charged with assaulting inmates.
Stephen Richards
#14. (Those women whom the distaff
no longer claims
nor spun cloth)
driven made,
mad,
mad
by Bacchus.
Hilda Doolittle
#15. Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
R. W. Apple Jr.
#16. Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.
Romain Rolland
#17. The rational scrutiny of religious faith involves asking believers only two questions: How do you know that? What makes you so sure that the claims of your faith are right and the claims of other faiths are wrong?
Jerry A. Coyne
#18. Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.
John Bates Clark
#20. I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!
Mary Hays
#21. First, he claims many people feel a need for personal growth in a
Christian way of life.
Gary W. Moon
#22. The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.
Poul Anderson
#23. Our wisdom grows not by staking out claims and defending them against all comers, but by sharing information freely, so that we may work together for the betterment of all.
Marie Brennan
#24. There is a new book out about Hillary Clinton that claims Bill is still having affairs but Hillary continues to look the other way. The only problem is when Hillary does look the other way Bill's having sex with a women over there too.
Jay Leno
#25. The only conscience we can trust to is the massive sense of wrong in a class, and the best wisdom that will work is the wisdom of balancing claims. That's my text - which side is injured? I support the man who supports their claims, not the virtuous upholder of the wrong.
George Eliot
#26. 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
#27. The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous.
Raul Labrador
#28. A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
A.O. Scott
#29. Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow men have a claim to our help; no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future generations.
Karl Popper
#30. The material world claims, 'I am what I think', whereas spiritualism says, 'I am, therefore I think'.
Gian Kumar
#31. The Master never claims that he is god and others are not; on the contrary the master gives us hope that we are similar to him, very much like him with this little difference - we are not aware of who we are and the Guru knows who he is.
Anandmurti Gurumaa
#32. Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal of understanding how the world works. It is for this reason that playing fast and loose with the truth is a very serious matter.
Carl Sagan
#33. 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
#34. Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.
Rabindranath Tagore
#35. I'm especially baffled by the idea of taking insurance against a U.S. default. If America defaults, we're talking about a chaotic world - Mad Max, more or less - in which case, who imagines that insurance claims will be honored?
Paul Krugman
#36. Though pigs have been proven susceptible to a porcine spongiform encephalopathy, the National Pork Producers Council claims that no naturally occurring cases of 'mad pig' disease have ever been discovered.
Michael Greger
#37. From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#38. "The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.
John Zerzan
#39. Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
John Dryden
#40. Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.
Agatha Christie
#41. If others neither have goods we want nor can perform services we need, we make sure that they are at a safe distance and close ourselves off from them so that their emaciated and tortured bodies can make no inordinate claims on us.
Miroslav Volf
#42. Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any likeness; the second prohibits the transferring of the worship which God claims for Himself alone, to any of these phantoms or delusive shows.
John Calvin
#43. A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
Russell Kirk
#44. It presents a really compelling case against the whole theory of anthropogenic global warming. From my point of view, it is a theory that has completely corrupted public policy making in most of the developed world. It confronts all the dubious claims that the warmists have put out there.
Nick Minchin
#45. Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
Rupert Sheldrake
#46. If you're concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a strong indication it's not really food, and food is what you want to eat
Michael Pollan
#47. 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
#48. While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.
Oscar Wilde
#49. ... 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
#50. There is no forgiveness when one who claims a superiority falls below the standard.
Frantz Fanon
#51. 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
#52. The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background.
Hamid-Reza Assefi
#53. This is what travelers discover: that when you sever the links of normality and its claims, when you break off from the quotidian, it is the teapots that truly shock.
Cynthia Ozick
#54. The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for exercise.
Tommy Bolt
#55. why provide relationship benefits to someone who claims they don't want a relationship...
R H Sin
#56. There are moments when we resort to senseless formulations and advance absurd claims to hide straightforward feelings.
Elena Ferrante
#57. Post fast on good news or bad. Someone say something bad about your product? Link to it - before the second or third site does - and answer its claims as best you can.
Robert Scoble
#58. I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
Lance Armstrong
#59. On Mill's view of speech, speech that is not part of an argument aimed at truth-purely emotive speech, bullying speech, and speech that does not make truth-claims at all-deserves no particular protection.
Saul Levmore
#60. Shouldn't I join the ranks of philosophers and merely make unsubstantiated claims about the wonders of human consciousness? Shouldn't I stop trying to do some science and keep my head down? Indeed not.
Kevin Warwick
#61. 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
#62. Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.
Franz Grillparzer
#63. When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.
Matisyahu
#64. Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
William Wells Brown
#65. 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
#67. Just because a person claims to be a Christian does not necessarily mean that he is one.
Billy Graham
#68. The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three ... The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.
Sigmund Freud
#69. 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
#70. Faith actually means surrender and commitment to the claims of Christ. It means an acknowledgment of sin and a turning to Christ.
Billy Graham
#71. 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
#72. I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that the Holocaust occurred.
Thomas Schelling
#73. 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
#74. Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.
Frank Gehry
#75. Many religious moderates have taken the apparent high road of pluralism, asserting the equal validity of all faiths, but in doing so they neglect to notice the irredeemably sectarian truth claims of each.
Sam Harris
#76. We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.
Christopher Hitchens
#77. You know, my father says those are the four most frightening words a woman can say. He claims that nothing good ever begins with "We need to talk." You're worrying me a little here, Duffy.
Kody Keplinger
#78. You might of put Travis from your mind, but I still think he claims a piece of your heart.
Karen Witemeyer
#79. For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus
#80. In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims.
Peter York
#81. Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.
Dorothy West
#82. He is often deeply enough involved in it, though he colours his groundless claims by adopting popular language and announcing everything as 'mere probability', 'rational conjecture', or 'analogy'.36
Anonymous
#83. That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#84. We are firm believers of the paranormal, but we believe over 80 percent of all claims can be disproved.
Jason Hawes
#85. 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
#86. The form of the Gothic novel also implicitly contested the claims of Realism to reflect the world directly by showing how artificial its structure was.
Michael Richardson
#87. There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.
Annie Besant
#88. "Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret police would ambush you, violate you, skin you alive and use your skull for a drinking cup."
Janet Morris
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.
Carl Sagan
#92. A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but
surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason
better.
Paul Halmos
#93. We have no authoritative figure, no Walter Cronkite or Edward R. Murrow whom we all listen to and trust to sort out contradictory claims. Instead, the media is splintered into a thousand fragments, each with its own version of reality, each claiming the loyalty of a splintered nation.
Barack Obama
#94. In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City.
P. J. O'Rourke
#95. Partiality, in the sense that objectors commonly use the word, is impossible in the sphere of grace. It can exist only in the sphere of justice, where the persons concerned have certain claims and rights.
Loraine Boettner
#96. Iraqi's minister of information did not show up for his press conference today. However, he claims he was there and he said it went very well.
David Letterman
#97. 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
#98. A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity. It would be more nearly true to say that it is based upon wonder, adventure and hope.
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
#99. A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be,
Joshua Ferris
#100. 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
