Claims Quotes

• Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Needs
  • Stories
  • Particular

• We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Realizing
  • Anarchy
  • Tendencies

• I respect every mother and I believe people are entitled to use whatever benefits, claims and entitlements, if you like, that are available to them

  

  Chris Bowen
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mother

• It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Credit
  • Groups
  • Deeds

• I believe the Palestinians have never indicated a willingness to meet our minimum requirements, which are recognition of Israel's permanence and legitimacy as a Jewish state and end of claims and end of conflict.

  

  Michael Oren
  • Believe
  • Conflict
  • Recognition

• The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.

  

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
  • Country
  • Power
  • Claims

• This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Child
  • Fools
  • Claims

• Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Exercise
  • Liberty
  • Possession

• In everyday life, he claims, we all experience three states of consciousness: the awake state, in which we experience awareness and the objects of our consciousness originate in the physical reality around us; the dream state, in which we experience awareness, but the objects of our consciousness have some internal origin; and the deepsleep state, in which there is no awareness. According to Russell, the state achieved in meditation is a fourth distinct state, in which there is awareness, indeed profound awareness, but awareness of nothing but consciousness itself. In this state, awareness transcends consciousness of objects and is pure self-awareness.

  

  Bernard Haisch
  • Experience
  • Dream
  • Consciousness

• I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a composer.

  

  Richard Rodney Bennett
  • Age
  • Proud
  • Able

• If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

  

  Thomas Bulfinch
  • Deserve
  • Possession
  • Mythology

• I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Guy
  • Average
  • Smarter

• I never claimed to be the best singer, I never claimed to be the best dancer, but I do claim to be the person that can put them together best.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Together
  • Persons
  • Singers

• I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

  

  Raymond Loewy
  • Beautiful
  • Century
  • Claims

• The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated.

  

  David Bentley
  • Culture
  • Language
  • Boundaries

• In a very real sense my science does inform my knowledge of God. If you would allow me to say that we never know God, because if I claim that I know God, I know something other than God, because God is not knowable, he is unknowable. So we have to approach it in that sense first, that my knowledge of God is always limited.

  

  George Coyne
  • Firsts
  • Doe
  • Approach

• If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Perfection
  • Claims
  • Dare

• religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Animal
  • Knows
  • Morality

• When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned w/ perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it.

  

  Cecelie Berry
  • Knows
  • Young
  • Perfection

• Every claim creates an obligation.

  

  William James
  • Obligation
  • Claims

• Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the routine is rigorously proscribed by law, the law, and not the man, must have the credit of the conduct.

  

  William H. Prescott
  • Temptation
  • Morality
  • Agency

• The claims of an Armenian Genocide are not based on historical facts. If the history of the period is examined it becomes evident that in fact no such genocide took place

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Facts
  • Historical
  • Armenian Genocide

• I have never wanted to claim I know what is best for Israel.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Knows
  • Wanted
  • Israel

• I don't have a Pollyana attitude toward life that claims everything is lovely.

  

  Eve Arden
  • Attitude
  • Lovely
  • Claims

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