Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Grover Norquist

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.

We have a mechanism in place to do what a union claims it can do for us.

We can't ignore the trend -- jobless claims have been coming down. We're at least close to turning the corner on the labor market front.

Reza Aslan

There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there's nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name.

Michael Arrington

I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

Menachem Begin

We of course will say we claim sovereignty of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza district. Others will come, and they will say we claim sovereignty. What can be the outcome?

Paul Bloom

Any simple claim that you need religion to be good is flat wrong.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

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.

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.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth.

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.

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

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.