#claim

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#called #claim #deserves #enlarge #helps

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. ↗

— Lord Byron

#gathering #greatest #grief #grieve #i

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#fears #live #optimist #pessimist #possible

The sky is not burning, and to claim that it is amounts to journalistic malpractice... the press only promotes the global warming alarmists and ignores or minimizes those of us who are skeptical. ↗

— Mark L. Campbell

#claim #global #global warming #ignores #journalistic

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#claimed #exclusively #experience #now #once

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#due #him #obedience #refuses #woe

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it. ↗

— Scott Stapp

#come #faith #fighting #finally #get

You can ask any set decorator on any set where I've had to be in an office, I always kind of claim it - I put Post-its everywhere, and I kind of make it look lived-in. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#any #ask #claim #decorator #everywhere

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user! ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#fame #ipad #oldest #user

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#anyone #bore #certainly #claims #clear