Quotes of: Eminent Keyword

Confidence is silent; insecurities shout. The true power, eminence and dignity of a woman are often not forgotten by others, but by herself.

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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Joseph Addison

The eminent strategy had won yesterday, but defeat will be felt by enemy tomorrow.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

I believe the term is ‘eminent domain.’ Ah, yes. That means ‘theft by the government,

Thud!

Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet to people from across the globe.

Richard Rogers

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

A. Scott Berg

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Max Weber

Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.

William Banting

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

John Pearson

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Edmund Burke

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Miguel de Cervantes

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.

Nicolaus Copernicus

This is why 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

Left to faggots and their defenders, all our forefathers, eminent ancestors and international heroes were either homosexual or bisexual.

Bill Gaede

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Charles Kendall Adams

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

William Godwin

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

Wilbur Smith

A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

If oppression produced saints, we’d want everyone to be oppressed.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.

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