Quotes of: Eminent Keyword

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Jonathan Swift

We’re happier when the assholes are villains.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.

Landmarks in French Literature

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.

Preet Bharara

Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

P. J. O'Rourke

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

Mitt Romney

I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

Art is long and life is short.

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The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

Niall Ferguson

During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

Nancy Pearcey

Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

Flavius Josephus

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

Gottfried Leibniz

A Pagan is a man eminently convertible to Christianity. The post-Christian man differs from him as much as a divorcee differs from a virgin.

C.S. Lewis

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

William McKinley

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

Katharine Anthony

Chattar Lal: Dr. Jones, the eminent archaeologist? Willie: Hard to believe, isn't it?

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

I really never cared about any occupation or stream. I just wanted to be an eminent personality.

Life

A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Death is almost never timely, even for the old.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America