Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Ricky Jay

I wasn't obsessed by magic. People say, 'How you can you claim you practiced eight hours a day and weren't obsessed?' Well, people go to a job they don't even like for eight hours a day; it's not obsessive if it's something you like.

We'll probably be seeing hail claims from this storm well into the end of May and into June.

To win public support and government funding, advocates for human cloning and ESC (embryonic stem cell) research have long made hyped claims and exaggerated promises to legislators and the public.

Truckers claim these giants will be restricted to motorways and dual carriageways - but we've heard all this before.

We need to face up to the fact that the nation's freedom has been put in danger by the very people who claim to uphold it, with their claim that freedom of speech gives them license to say anything - or do anything - because they are simply being 'informative,'

Henry Spencer

Claiming that solid rockets are necessary for a heavy-lift launcher is obvious nonsense.

Roxane Gay

I would love for everyone to be a feminist, but I have to respect people's choices. If you don't want to be a feminist and don't want to claim feminism, that's entirely your right.

Most of the customers were more than cooperative in getting their claims filed so we could get right to work on them.

Most of the companies have sent catastrophe teams in here. They're working the claims pretty fast -- it's going very smoothly.

Who is entitled to rents from Fort Trumbull properties or should rents even be paid? Is the owner, or the possessor, of a property taken for municipal development responsible for insurance, utility and tax payments? Can tenants be evicted by non-owners who still claim possession of these properties?

Larry Sabato

Whoever wins will take their issues and claim they're national in scope, ... even if it isn't true.

We had given up hope of ever getting the statue back and put in an insurance claim and next day it was returned.

Sharon Cooper

We have to pay the claim within 60 days.

Paul Verhoeven

Jesus may have had an immense sense of importance or destiny, but he never claimed to be the Son of God.

We hope the lawsuits end, the delaying tactics stop and that the claims can proceed. These people have waited for years to get back the use of their property.

Ayad Allawi

We don't claim we have completely provided security to Iraqis, but I say there has been good progress,

We don't claim to be a high-end, five-star resort with all the gadgets in the rooms.

Tony Perkins

We do not claim the right to speak for everyone, but we do claim the right to speak. And speak we will to the millions of Americans who share our values. Our voice is just as legitimate as the voice of others.

While claims at 350,000 or so would not be a disaster, they would be consistent with (monthly) payrolls trending at only about 125,000 -- not enough to push the unemployment rate any lower.

Which shows that some of these claims can be highly exaggerated.

We're data driven. We're looking at warranty and claims information with all tires. If the data suggest we need to take action, we will.

Steve Ballmer

Well, I think there are experts who claim Linux violates our intellectual property. I'm not going to comment. But to the degree that that's the case, of course we owe it to our shareholders to have a strategy. And when there is something interesting to say, you'll be the first to hear it.

Michael Johnson

Under Texas law, the proceeds from most retirement plans are typically not subject to the claims of the decedent's creditors unless the decedent has designated his or her estate as the beneficiary of the plan.

Greg Graffin

The thrill of science is the process. It's a social process. It's a process of collective discovery. It's debate, it's experimentation and it's verification of claims that might be false. It's the greatest foundation for a society.

Greg Graffin

People who are creative, who do it as a lifestyle, it's kind of silly to make that claim you're done, because you just never know when that spark is going to hit you again. You can't necessarily predict how you're going to feel. In ten years I'll be 58, and I might still feel like making a punk record.