“Human rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of POWs under the Geneva Conventions.” HumansWarPresidentDecisionPiecesRightsExampleClaimsHuman RightsDenyFighterAlsPrisonerConventionsPresident BushAl QaedaTalibanGenevaMistreatmentPrisoner Of WarGeneva Convention Author:John Yoo
“Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the present moment, but the present spot, passion claims for its own, and brooding over it with wings outspread, stamps it with an image of itself. Passion is lord of infinite space, and distant objects please because they border on its confines and are moulded by its touch.” MomentsPassionSpaceLordPiecesObjectsPleaseClaimsInfiniteWingsSpotsBordersFancyOver ItPresent MomentLeisureStampsBroodingInfinite Space Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.” PeopleArtStoriesSpacePiecesClaims Author:Haile Gerima
“I think it's just yet another piece to cause confusion and I think that the 'so-called scientific debate' is very silly now - It's like a bunch of theologians arguing over how many angels you can stick on the head of a needle. When you've got a side that changes from global warming, global warming, global warming to climate change, which is intuitive - the climate has always been changing since the beginning of time - and then just begins to claim every answer is the correct answer, you often stand back, and I don't care who you are, you have to question as to what the real motive is in this.” ThinkingRealCareCausesSidesAnswersPiecesAngelClaimsWho You AreSticksClimateClimate ChangeDon't CareArguingDebateSillyBunchConfusionI Don't CareMotiveGlobal WarmingTheologianIntuitiveNeedles Author:Joe Bastardi
“This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these attacks. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror. This was part of nothing.” ReasonPiecesEventsDemandDestructionClaimsNotesSilentTerrorStatementsBloody Author:Edward Said
“One who knows not what his rights are can never know when they are taken and is unable to defend them. He is like a man who believes he owns a piece of ground which his neighbor also claims, but he doesn't know its boundaries. The neighbor continues to encroach further and further onto land he suspects is his, but since he is never certain where the boundary is, he cannot check the advance. Until he takes a firm position and says: "this far and no further," there is no line.” KnowsMenBelieveCertainLinesTakenPiecesRightsLandPositionClaimsNeighborBoundariesChecksFirmSuspects Author:H. Verlan Andersen
“Note that there was no claim for these attacks [on 9/11]. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror.” PiecesDemandClaimsNotesSilentTerrorStatements Author:Edward Said
“If cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys go into slaughterhouses alive and come out chopped up into hundreds of pieces, how could anyone claim that animals aren't being mistreated, abused, tortured, terrorized and savagely murdered in these places? How in the world could SLAUGHTERING BILLIONS of INNOCENTS be done with love, humanity and concern?” IfsWorldDoneHumanityAnimalPiecesAliveConcernClaimsBillionsChickensCowsPigsTurkeysSlaughterhousesMistreatedDone With Love Author:Gary Yourofsky
“If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.” IfsMenGuyFightingSidesEmotionPiecesEternalIllusionClaimsDenySubstanceHonourRebelSubjectiveTriggersMinionsIndependance Book:Chronicles of the Black Company Source: Chronicles of the Black Company
“When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.” TryingChildrenSometimesParentPiecesClaimsYour ChildrenFinding Yourself Book:Vanishing Acts Source: Vanishing Acts
“Whether we fail or not, we shall not be kept from continuing our mission by those who claim it can't be done. ...Indeed the whole of agricultural and livestock science and even human medicine, if sound, is merely the business of discovering certain natural patterns already in existence, putting together the various pieces and discovering their relationship to the whole universe; indeed such a process is science itself” IfsHumansDoneWholeTogetherCertainUniverseProcessSoundNaturalExistenceEnvironmentPiecesFailingClaimsMedicinePatternsVariousMissionsDiscoveringContinuingLivestock Author:Louis Bromfield