Quotes of: Eminent Keyword

I am a citizen of the world.

The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Altamirano: [about native boy] Don Cabeza, how can you possibly refer to this child as an animal? Cabeza: A parrot can taught to sing, Your Eminence. Altamirano: Ah yes, but how does one teach it to sing as melodiously as this? Cabeza: Your Eminence....

The Mission

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

George Bernard Shaw

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Henry Ward Beecher

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Jonathan Swift

One of the great advantages of having a library,your eminence, is that it is full of books.

Michael Hirst

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

Ernst Mach

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.

Orson F. Whitney

My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it.'

Scott Kim

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

B. R. Ambedkar

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

William Godwin

The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence.

William Burton Pope

Everybody is Other in Maupin.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

The line between patriot and terrorist is drawn by the historian.

Eminent Domain

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

J. Paul Getty

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

Jean de la Bruyere

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

Anna Seward

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

Charles Babbage

The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good text available.

Noam Chomsky