We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find our...selves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Tis no sinister nor awkward claim Picked from the wormholes of long-vanished days,... Nor from the dust of old oblivion raked.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming ...from us; our competence is from God, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The primary imperative for women who intend to assume a meaningful and decisive role in today's social change is to begin to perce...ive themselves as having an identity and personal integrity that has as strong a claim for being preserved intact as that of any other individual or group.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As Jerome expanded, its chances for the title, "the toughest little town in the West," increased and when it was incorporated in 1...899 the citizens were able to support the claim by pointing to the number of thick stone shutters on the fronts of all saloons, gambling halls, and other places of business for protection against gunfire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some day I'll claim to you how all used up I am because of you but in the meantime the ride... Continues. Everyone is along for the ride, It seems. Besides, what else is there?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What I shall have to say here is neither difficult nor contentious; the only merit I should like to claim for it is that of being ...true, at least in parts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better than... the metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared ...the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »