An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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.
Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.
Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of ‘Civus romanus sum’ set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up to a point, but Roman citizens lived in a society that accepted pain, cruelty, and torture as the norm, and in which there was no suggestion of equality at birth or mercy in the afterlife.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
No movie can claim to be a work of philosophy. They fulfill a totally different need in people.
I’ve never had a voice coach, but I am about to name drop horrendously here: I did once get some advice on how to project my voice from Sean Connery, which was lovely. It’s all about where you breathe. That’s my claim to fame.
Louise Brown’s birth marked the end of the beginning of human IVF, acclaimed at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. This event was snubbed by some clinicians now styled as ‘pioneers’, who shouted that the test-tube claim was a fake! They did not matter.
I do think that people will claim a certain fatigue about talking about race. But I think that even though they do, it’s still necessary – completely necessary.
Being right is overrated! If someone is saying that they’re right about the future, that’s a claim only a fool would make.
I can’t claim my grandfather’s work has influenced mine directly, but his life certainly inspired me to follow this path.
We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
I’m a third-generation Miamian. I’m fond of it. I’m an expatriate, so it’s the only American city I can still legitimately claim.
When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.
Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.
God lays claim to all firsts. So when you keep for yourself something that belongs to God you are desecrating what is to be consecrated to God.
I’ve reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don’t know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.
Of course Meghan Markle wasn’t driven out of this country by racism. It is a ludicrous claim and symptomatic of how ridiculous the must-be-offended-at-all-costs brigade has become.
I never believe it when people claim they knew they wanted to be actors when they were 4 or 5 years old. I think that’s rubbish. When you’re that age, you just like showing off.
Patenting tends to get people’s juices flowing when you put the word ‘gene’ and the word ‘patent’ in the same sentence. And understandably so. This is stuff we’re carrying around – all of us – inside all of our cells. Should somebody be able to lay claim to it?
We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.
It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
You gotta claim the crown and the people also gotta crown you, too. It’s not just about somebody saying they king.
I have issues with anyone who tries to claim that science is unworkable – creationists who deny evidence for past history, yet are happy to benefit from the products of the methodology that they otherwise deny.
It seems in America you are stuck with the position you adopted, even when events change, in order to claim absolute consistency. That can’t be good.
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.
No one has a First Amendment right to lie to a federal agency in order to claim an improper tax status in order to avoid legal disclosure requirements on political spending and thereby receive undue tax benefits. That’s a criminal false statement and possibly a fraud.
They’re always trying to claim that if I talk about world government and corruption, I’m anti-Semitic.
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
I don’t claim to know Israel. I don’t speak Hebrew; my contacts are pretty limited. But I didn’t know Vietnam; I didn’t know Nicaragua, El Salvador or Honduras. It doesn’t mean you can’t reach your conclusions.
It’s a rule of ‘Deadhead-dom’ to claim to hate Donna Godchaux and always say, ‘Phil makes the band,’ though I think that pronouncement was proved inaccurate after Jerry died.
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
It is extremely hard to bring a claim for compensation against the police or the Crown Prosecution Service, even when a person has been charged with an offence and later cleared.
I don’t claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.
I don’t think I’ve ever made a claim to startling originality.
I got five kids – I claim three for income tax purposes.
Along with all the other stunning statistics China can provide, it can also claim to be the world leader in making energy from human excrement. Biogas, as this energy is known, can be produced from the fermentation of any organic material, from wood to vegetables to human excreta.
Those who dare to interpret God’s will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.
No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn’t hear or see coming.
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.
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.
I don’t want to claim that my government can find solutions to all the problems facing the people.
A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby’s large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies are wonderful learners, but it is hard to avoid the impression that they begin as ignorant as bread loaves.
Fascists, Antifa attacked me, and an all-black police force in Philadelphia, and they claim to be fighting racism.
I’m Cancer and Gemini cusp, so I read both and pick the one I like best. I read horoscopes but claim not to believe any of it.
I can claim with total honesty that no home minister has visited Kashmir as many times as I have.
It’s laughable to claim the pro-life label while simultaneously putting people’s lives at risk because you’re too stubborn to acknowledge that Medicaid doesn’t fund abortions.
From the very beginning, Americans have exhibited a taste for expansion, an appetite for empire. One of the fundamental reasons for this is very clear. Like every other western empire that has ever existed, Americans may claim to have inherited the mantle of ancient Rome.
The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
Those who claim we buy oil from Daesh are obliged to prove it. If not, you are slanderer.
Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.
