Peremptory Quotes

#1. Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder
which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would submissively obey the most peremptory orders about stance and expression.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love
this hunger of the heart
as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

George Eliot

#4. Something that he wants to do. And when I answer his peremptory scratch at the door and hold the door open for him to walk through, he stops in the middle and lights a cigarette, just to hold me up.

E.B. White

#5. Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

Thurgood Marshall

#6. The voice on the telephone seemed to be sharp and peremptory, but I didn't hear too well what it said, partly because I was only half awake and partly because I was holding the receiver upside down

Raymond Chandler

#7. Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

John Locke

#8. Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#9. Benevolence is often very peremptory.

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. Avuncular authority. In an abrupt, an almost peremptory letter, he laid his case,

Lytton Strachey

#11. God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

George Eliot

#12. One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath through rips in the sky, the strange becomes stranger, and many things may come to pass that few imaginations could encompass.

Laini Taylor

#13. Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.

Iyanla Vanzant

#14. I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

Helen Hayes

#15. If you know your strength it never becomes a weakness. If the market knows your strength then it becomes a weakness.

Shailender Singh

#16. The difference between nations lay not in the technology itself but in the totality of the effort that brought that technology to life.

Amy Shira Teitel

#17. In knowing you I, discovered my self.

Aisha Mirza

#18. Is there a Henry in the world who could be insensible to such a declaration?

Anonymous

#19. They would beg for elegant attention; yet fled any kind of confrontation.

Ophelia Callens

#20. The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Bianca Jagger

#21. A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

Walter Savage Landor

#22. That's the thing about mistakes - you don't dwell on them.

Lil' Wayne

#23. There can be no greater spiritual accomplishment than to come through brutal trials and then look back and see that mean times did not render us mean spirits.

Barbara Kingsolver

#24. Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your life.

Ken Scott