Predicate Quotes

#1. The knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

Anne Truitt

#2. ATTRIBUTE, TERM, SUBJECT, PREDICATE, PARTICULAR, UNIVERSAL
charmingly useful, if any friend should happen to ask if you have ever studied Logic. Mind you bring all seven words into your answer, and you friend will go away deeply impressed
'a sadder and a wiser

Lewis Carroll

#3. It is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.

Al Gore

#4. When we predicate of any thing an abstract name, we affirm of the thing that it is one or other of these five things; that it is a case of Existence, or of Co-existence, or of Causation, or of Sequence, or of Resemblance.

John Stuart Mill

#5. You are all at once the subject, object, predicate, preposition, and period of my thoughts.

Daria Snadowsky

#6. This, however, only shows that there is an ambiguity in the word is; a word which not only performs the function of the copula in affirmations, but has also a meaning of its own, in virtue of which it may itself be made the predicate of a proposition.

John Stuart Mill

#7. The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

Oscar Wilde

#8. I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.

May Sarton

#9. Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

Maya Lin

#10. People take even greater umbrage when they hear themselves labeled with a common noun. The reason is that a noun predicate appears to pigeonhole the with a stereotype of a category rather than referring to them as an individual who happens to possess a trait.

Steven Pinker

#11. If the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.

Arthur W. Pink

#12. God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#13. It is self-evident that the tabula rasa of modernization favors the optimum use of earth-moving equipment inasmuch as a totally flat datum is regarded as the most economic matrix upon which to predicate the rationalization of construction.

Kenneth Frampton

#14. [I]f God as a subject is the determined, while the quality, the predicate, is determining, then in truth the rank of the godhead is due not to the subject, but to the predicate.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#15. Throughout the night, a part of him always touched a part of her.

Ronlyn Domingue

#16. You cannot see what you don't look for, and you cannot look for what you don't believe in.

Darren Hardy

#17. Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

Blaise Pascal

#18. You can learn to direct yourself to be peaceful inside regardless of what is happening with your body.

Lee L Jampolsky

#19. It's better to run towards something good, than away from something bad.

Fennel Hudson

#20. If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Paulo Coelho

#21. Keep your eyes open. Look at the world without prejudice, pay attention to your sources, and decide for yourself where the truth lies. That is the greatness of the path I'm offering you.

Javier Sierra

#22. The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

Emma Goldman