Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Martin

Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Guy Gavriel Kay

When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history in a fantasy setting, we are acknowledging that this educated guesswork, invention, fantasy underlie our treatment of the past and its peoples - and we are not claiming a right to do with them as we will.

Jim Ramstad

The one time that regulators comprehensively audited expenses claimed under the CDSOA, they found significant problems,

Eugene Kennedy

Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time.

Damien Chazelle

I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

You have to have a plan. This isn't wishing. Instead of always being in a hopeful situation - like, 'I hope one day ...' - let's claim it now.

Glenn Greenwald

As for the claim that drone 'pilots' are not engaged in the extinguishing of human life via video games, the military's own term for its drone kills - 'bug splat,' which happens to be the name of a children's video game - and other evidence negates that.

Pat Paulsen

I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.

Bernard Beckett

The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.

Vicky Hartzler

I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

P. J. O'Rourke

If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it was forced on our country by a sinister international organization.

The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes are settled. If they leave, their claims are closed.

We still have folks working Katrina claims in Florida, as well as claims open from last season. If it hits, we'll be in pretty good shape to handle it.

We are glad parish has stepped forward to claim what is rightfully theirs. I hope they put the money to good use.

We understand their claim to fame is not raising the budget. But we're concerned with all the money paid to administrators. In fact, they should be lowering taxes.

Amy Bloom

'Normal' is not clinical, it's not autobiographical, and I don't claim to be objective. It's strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the people that I met and the stories that I heard. It was never meant to be an academic work.

Henry B. Eyring

What we want with all our hearts will determine in large degree whether we can claim our right to the companionship of the Holy Ghost, without which there can be no spiritual nourishing.

George Reisman

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, at current levels, and coupled with the extraordinarily low level of labor demand, the claims numbers are still consistent with flat or falling payrolls and a rising unemployment rate. There's no real relief in sight here yet.

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.

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.

Stanley Hauerwas

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

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.

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.