Empt Quotes

#1. I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Dominic Cooper

#2. Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

Jack Dee

#3. The Grocery Manufacturers Association is behind the bills which have been trying to pre-empt states' labeling laws in the Senate. And they have a lot of money and power in Washington. So it's a classic David versus Goliath story, where corporate lobbying outweighs consumers' rights.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#4. So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.

Emily Mortimer

#5. The small word, "No." I'd see its deity.

Aspen Matis

#6. Far too many advocates rail against this or that sexual practice; few state clearly and explicitly what we are for.

Michael Rittenhouse

#7. [On 9/11:] ... those towers represented human triumph over nature. Larger than life, built to be unburnable, they were the Titanic of our day. For them to burn and fall so quickly means that the whole superstructure we depend upon to mitigate nature and assure our comfort and safety could fall.

Starhawk

#8. They won't love you anymore; they would start disrespecting you and hating you because you turned to be an infidel for them by not believing anymore in what they believe.

M.F. Moonzajer

#9. What you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#10. Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science?

Jerry A. Coyne

#11. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.

Brandon Sanderson