Pre Eminence Quotes

#1. Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

Edmund Burke

#2. Personal commitment to the principles of the kingdom must take pre-eminence

Sunday Adelaja

#3. The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.

James Fenton

#4. Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.

David Hume

#5. Such is the fate, in some form or other, of all those who unbalance the master's sense of self, poke holes in his vanity, or make him doubt his pre-eminence.

Robert Greene

#6. He held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.

George Eliot

#7. I was brought up in a Christian environment where, because God had to be given pre-eminence, nothing else was allowed to be important. I have broken through to the position that because God exists, everything has significance.360

Mark A. Noll

#8. though this pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself, giving the white man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe;

Herman Melville

#9. So that, upon the whole, there must be some kind of subjection due from every man to every man, which cannot be made void by any power, pre-eminence, or authority whatsoever.

Jonathan Swift

#10. The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

Mitt Romney

#11. I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.

King George V

#12. My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England.

Kedar Joshi

#13. The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence.

William Burton Pope

#14. I tell you frankly, Mrs. Damer, the more I see of different nations, the less sure I feel about the pre-eminence of my own.

Emma Donoghue

#15. Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.

John Ruskin

#16. The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a pre-eminence by birth.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent.

Curnonsky

#18. If I die in a cafe with a good book, then I died a happy man".

Bruce Washburn

#19. Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

Lord Chesterfield

#20. Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Charles De Lint

#21. Even a rat will choose the least painful route if you shock him enough

Haruki Murakami

#22. A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take.

Moses Ibn Ezra

#23. The chief al Qaeda recruiting tool is the net.

Bill O'Reilly

#24. Sadoway does more than entertain; he gives you a glimpse into the future of energy.

Jeffrey Kluger

#25. Talents used are talents multiplied.

Ellen G. White

#26. Yes, I said something to him, and then I cooled him off." "Cooled? By what process?" "I knocked him halfway across Broadway and took my wife." "You did?" Wolfe scowled at him. "What's the matter with your brain? Does it leak?

Rex Stout