Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juliana Hatfield

My dad claims that he was able to trace us back to the West Virginia Hatfields. When I look at the old pictures, the patriarchs have kind of a physical likeness to some of the men on the father's side of my family. I want it to be true.

Christian Lous Lange

For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic.

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. In my opinion we haven't seen it yet.

But the initial piece of this was the fact that he went to the courthouse and claimed he was involved in the surveillance video tape and he wasn't.

Josh McDowell

But Jesus claimed to be God. He claimed that unless we are personally related to Him we are still in our sins and we are not saved.

There is no reason whatsoever for a party like the SPD to relinquish any of its claims as long as it's not clear if the two parties want to negotiate with each other,

Nicholas Stern

To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong.

To claim their goal is not partisan really stretches the imagination.

We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.

Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.

Without some testing standards, marketers can make whatever claims they like, and can find a tester to help them prove it.

We need to control the outlandish settlement of claims of sinkholes in Pasco and Hernando.

Albert Claude

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

Andie MacDowell

In the days when I used to tweet, I would encounter comments wishing death upon me. There were people who claimed they were sticking pins in my effigy because they couldn't stand me. There's some seriously disturbed people out there.

Bernie Sanders

It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company.

No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.

Garth Tander

Todd can claim all he likes, but there was nothing in it.

We've had a few good days and the only economic number we had today was the jobless claims, ... People are starting to get nervous -- if the jobless claims look like that, what will the unemployment rate look like, and that's the driver.

Jason Miller

We all understand that the political season is upon us, but Oscar's claims get sillier every day.

Tonight I'll claim her as my niece. There's no one else I'd want at the line in that situation ... she has so much poise ... (She was) fabulous, unbelievable.

Dean Ornish

The reason I spend so much of my time doing science is that the whole point of science is to help people resolve conflicting claims by saying: 'Show me the data.'

There is not a hand-in-glove relationship necessarily with the jobless claims and the payrolls number, ... We're still pretty upbeat.

We've heard reports of students meeting with their instructors on the subway as their teachers dash off to other jobs. How can we claim to provide a quality education when faculty members often have neither an office nor a desk?

When people come up with extraordinary claims -- like the troposphere is cooling -- then you demand extraordinary proof. What's happening now is that people around the world are subjecting these data sets to the scrutiny they need.

Brian Jones

We thought originally we would have a massive increase in jobless claims right after the storm. Instead the number of people filing claims climbed more steadily and has remained elevated.

Elisha Gray

Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.

I have been beset night and day at Alton. And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

I don't claim to be someone that knows every verse in the Bible. I wish I did. I truly do. It just means I need to spend more time in those pages.

Elaine Pagels

Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what would become their dominant teaching about salvation, offered only through Christ, and, in particular, through the church they claimed to represent.

Stanley Hauerwas

Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.

We will claim that George III is a good man and a kind man who loves all people, except for the French.

We are encouraged by the findings of the report, but won't be satisfied until every claim has been settled.