#claim

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#attention #claims #does #expose #forget

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#despotism #despots #divided #increases #more

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget. ↗

— Mark Dayton

#budget #bush #bush administration #claims #crisis

I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil. ↗

— Uri Geller

#because #bent #claimed #contraceptive #her

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#claim #falls #generation #in the past #next

This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#absolutely #any #anyone #anything #anyway

I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God. ↗

— Richard Land

#appalled #both #claim #concerning #events

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#burned #defended #full #history #ideas

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. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#because #claim #entire #everybody #hold

I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#did #founder #i #occurs #only