Top 33 Edict Quotes
#2. Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#3. There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: 'Thou shalt not eat.' (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn't involved dieting, don't you?)
Liz Curtis Higgs
#4. The goal was to have goals, the aim to have aims. This edict came entangled often in hysteria, the embattled hysteria of those whom experience had taught how little antagonism it takes to wreck a life beyond repair.
Philip Roth
#5. Every moment is an edict spoken by its past. The past is the real tyranny.
Seth Dickinson
#6. The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.
Le Corbusier
#7. The king's edict granted the Jews in every city the right to assemble and protect themselves; to destroy, kill and annihilate the armed men of any nationality or province who might attack them and their women and children, and to plunder the property of their enemies. Ester 8:11
Bible. New International Version
#8. A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them but can be regarded as an option for others seeking an alternative view.
Maajid Nawaz
#9. There is only one way to respect the substance of any purported God-given moral edict: consider it conscientiously in the full light of reason, using all the evidence at our command. No God that was pleased by displays of unreasoning love would be worthy of worship.
Daniel C. Dennett
#10. And my Guide to me: He will not wake again until the angel trumpet sounds the day on which the host shall come to judge all men. Then shall each soul before the seat of Mercy return to its sad grave and flesh and form to hear the edict of Eternity.
Dante Alighieri
#11. The religious Jew is to study Torah for the sake of studying Torah. Torah lishmah. The ingenuity of the edict, I realized was that it relieved you of the obligation to be qualified. You studied because you had to study, and those who taught had to take you as a student.
Judith Shulevitz
#12. through self-selection or the firm's edict. Depending on the year and the firm, this could be between 5% and 15% of employees. Although compensation generally does not vary much during the first
David Stowell
#13. The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.
Anthony Lewis
#14. The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights.
Enver Hoxha
#15. In February 1720 an edict was published, which, instead of restoring the credit of the paper, as was intended, destroyed it irrecoverably, and drove the country to the very brink of revolution ...
Charles Mackay
#16. So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#17. Zeno's quote-unquote discovered a loophole in the Trust that smashes through the edict regarding love matches and divorces."
Leta Blake
#18. Every new rule, mandate, and regulatory edict is one more obstacle that small business owners, entrepreneurs, and job creators have to swallow.
Marsha Blackburn
#19. James II's second wife, an Italian Catholic princess called Mary (at the time, there was an edict whereby all female royals were to be called Mary to confuse future readers of history books),
Stephen Clarke
#20. German Emancipation Edict of 1822 guaranteed Jews in Germany all civil rights enjoyed by Germans.
Anonymous
#22. Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: 'Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors.' Everyone knows this.
Joyce Carol Oates
#23. When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.
Justin Bartha
#24. I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man / just a mortal with potential of a superman / I'm living on.
David Bowie
#25. I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
Tamsin Egerton
#26. I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.
Kiri Te Kanawa
#27. I liked the streets as much as museums, and I spent hours in the city wandering around, inhaling the garbage.
Siri Hustvedt
#28. I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands
Keith Richards
#29. God knows you can stand to be mine. You could say that you're not attracted to me, but we both know that you'd be lying. Tell me your price, Annabelle. Any sum you'd care to name. Do you want a house of your own? A yacht? Done. Let's get this over with - I've had enough of waiting for you.
Lisa Kleypas
#30. In opposition to this celestial tenderness, he summoned up pride, the fortress of evil in man.
Victor Hugo
#31. Where were we?" she said.
"Getting credit," I said.
"What about it?"
"Well, it's nice to get credit."
The spokes of her rear wheel spun behind the curtain of her long skirt. She looked like a photograph from a hundred years ago. She turned her wide eyes on me. "Is it?" she said.
Jerry Spinelli
#32. It takes a village to raise a child, they say, and it takes a community to raise a genius, no matter how singular the individual.
Orna Ross
#33. Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?
Brandon Sanderson
