#claim

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

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard. ↗

— Dick Dale

#go #i #julliard #musician

Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#claimed #even #execute #florida #hope

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group. ↗

— Ted Danson

#attacks #because #claim #environmental #everybody

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. ↗

— James Dickey

#because #claim #craft #does #done