Claim Quotes

I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. (Stephen Hawking)
I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim? View quote
Elizabeth Taylor
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. View quote
Frank Zappa
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. View quote
Ayn Rand
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America." View quote
Helen Rowland
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. View quote
Richard Dawkins
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. View quote
Mark Twain
A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens. View quote
John Coleman
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. View quote
Groucho Marx
A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. View quote
Michael Crichton
The science of pure mathematics ... may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group. View quote
Steven Pinker
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause. View quote
Eric Hoffer
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. (Malcolm Muggeridge)
Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers. View quote
Walter Scott
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land Whose heart hath neer within him burnd, As home his footsteps he hath turnd From wandering on a foreign strand If such there breathe, go mark him well For him no Minstrel raptures swell High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonord, and unsung. View quote
Walter Scott
And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes. For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do. View quote
Paul
Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual. View quote
Walter Russell Mead