The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be more concentrated, can be more visionary, and is not weighed down (as the novel is bound to be) by facts, explanation, or analysis. I do not mean to say that the short story is by any means exempt from the laws of narrative: it must observe them, but on its own terms.
I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.
All these fine Christian-type people that seem to think they know what God wants for all of us, that's certainly more of a sin then anything they would claim about us. To judge people is one of the greatest sins.
The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.
Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.
The report begins by asserting that it is a 'comprehensive' look at Benghazi resulting from an intensive investigation of nearly two years. Neither claim is true. Instead, the report is a reflection of a dysfunctional committee and the reluctant, ad hoc approach to Benghazi of its leadership and top staff.
The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene.
Tell no lies' claim no easy victories
As we enter into exquisite awareness of the life that want to live as us, we learn to love deeply. - We claim our passion.
Free men do not forfeit their security, contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom. If so, then let him explain to us why we don't strike Sweden, for example.
This era in human existence where so much information is out there, it's easy for someone like Donald Trump to use that to make his claim that information is fake news. And there are people who think 'I guess we should believe the President when he says it's fake news. '
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.
I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.
Even the worst dictator, there is not a single one of them who would say "Oh yes, I violate human rights. " They all claim "oh no, we respect human rights" even when they are doing the most egregious things.
The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.
No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
I speak up for myself. I claim my power now.
Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.
