You only feel powerless because your fear has given your power to the object of your fear. Once you realise this, you can claim it back.
An oil owner is someone who has claimed ownership of something that has been there for millions of years.
The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.
Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.
To claim that ISIS is Islamic is egregiously inaccurate and empirically unsustainable, not to mention insulting to the 1.6 billion non-violent adherents of Islam across the planet.
I don't claim to be a pro gamer in any shape or form.
I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.
I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin.
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.
Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.
I don't claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.