Quotes of: Precedent Keyword

Think about the precedents you are setting. It's the Left that runs the world on reckless emotionalism. Don't join.

Michelle Malkin

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.

John Charles Polanyi

There's a great energy and drive that takes precedence in a lot of rock and pop. It's about making a strong visceral connection. That's something that I think great classical music can have, too.

Joshua Roman

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Louisa May Alcott

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Thomas a Kempis

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Jackson Browne

As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices.

Greg Walden

It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.

Howard Carter

Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.

Judith Ellen Foster

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

William Glasser

No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

Bill Kristol

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Hugh Walpole

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Thomas A. Edison

I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.

Tessa Thompson

I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment.

Steven Pinker

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good.

Louis Zamperini

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Madame de Stael

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

Bill Nighy

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.

Juan Antonio Samaranch