Quotes of: Claims Keyword

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

Isaac Asimov

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.

Ethan A. Hitchcock

Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.

Samuel P. Huntington

I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.

LZ Granderson

Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.

Will Thomas

No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the world.

Life

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Beloved

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

Henry A. Wallace

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

Reflections on Gender and Science

The people who claim to be the most spiritual are usually the least so.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Piers Anthony

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Paul Theroux

Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy.

Paul Watson

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.

Simon Sinek

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

Timothy Garton Ash

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

Theodore Bikel

When a woman shows confidence and another claims arrogance, she is usually suffering from jealousy.

Teresa Mummert

Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.

Kjell Magne Bondevik