Staking Claim Quotes

#1. He sees her like I do: at seventeen, twenty, thirty. Superimposed over the fourteen-year-old, he sees the woman she'll become.
And he's staking claim.
Over. my. Dead. Fucking. Body.
And I can't die.

Karen Marie Moning

#2. The loser was a born loser, I thought, he has always been the loser and if we observe the people around us carefully we notice that these people consist almost entirely of losers like him, I said to myself, of

Thomas Bernhard

#3. I just really just try to get better as a player every week, just focusing on the team we have to play this week, and just trying to do whatever is best for the team that week.

Rob Gronkowski

#4. Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.

Joe Baca

#5. Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. I've always been a procrastinator.

Kris Allen

#7. Running from the presence of God has the futility of "trying to shovel smoke with a rake".

Paul David Tripp

#8. Personally I'm hoping to spend the last years of my life plugged into a real life MMORPG simulation that makes me think and feel like I'm 18 again while my 90 year old body lies in a tube somewhere getting fed thru an IV. Be a great way to finish up a life.

Drew Curtis

#9. Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.

Lord Acton

#10. Why won't you let me kiss you, Anna?"
I can't breathe.
"Why, Anna?"
"It's too much," I rasp.
"Not when I want everything." He says it so deep and strong, a staking of a claim. "And I want everything with you, Anna.

Kristen Callihan

#11. He took blue and red and placed them next to each other, painting the eyes of an angel. And I saw the angel's eyes turn violet

Milorad Pavic

#12. I was Carson "Joker" Steele's. End of story. He was mine too, but with a manly man biker, that was secondary. It went with the territory, hand in hand with him staking his claim. This did not bother me. It didn't trouble me. It didn't annoy me. It utterly thrilled me.

Kristen Ashley

#13. God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Harvey Cox

#14. Healing the Earth, through Healing Birth.

Jeannine Parvati Baker

#15. There was a delicious possessiveness in the way he kissed her, as if he were staking his claim at the same time he was burning away the memories of anyone else for her. And he did. In an instant, there was nobody but him.

J. Lynn

#16. If we do nothing, we are handing our children a ticking time bomb that will require they pay ever greater payroll taxes just as they are beginning their careers, starting their own families and staking their claim to the American Dream.

John McCain

#17. It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

Peter O'Toole

#18. Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep.

William Butler Yeats

#19. The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in his need presses forward to God, the more perfect he is ... To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself.

Soren Kierkegaard

#20. Insides the moment Lotho stated his condition. Daemon kissed like he was staking a claim, but he already had me - all of me. My heart. My soul. My whole being.

Jennifer L. Armentrout