Preeminently Quotes

#1. No one knew his first name, and in general he was known in the country as Beauty Smith. But he was anything save a beauty. To antithesis was due his naming. He was preeminently unbeautiful. Nature had been niggardly with him.

Jack London

#2. Taxation is not a technical matter. It is preeminently a political and philosophical issue, perhaps the most important of all political issues.

Thomas Piketty

#3. Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.

Berenice Abbott

#4. I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.

Stendhal

#5. The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

Leon Kass

#6. Anger is an emotion preeminently serviceable for the display of power.

Walter Bradford Cannon

#7. The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

William Shenstone

#8. The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.

William J. Brennan

#9. Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

John Ruskin

#10. Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

Henry Ford

#11. This is the perennial danger which besets semiotics: what with man being preeminently the sign-using creature, and what with man using signs in everything that he does, semiotics runs the risk of being about everything and hence about nothing.

Walker Percy

#12. In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

Grover Cleveland

#13. So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn't apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it

Robert Fulghum

#14. If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming.

Satish Kumar

#15. Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. ... But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.

Joan D. Chittister

#16. How foolish to think you can tell your children about yourself before they're at least fifty. To ask to be seen by them as a person and not as a function. To say : I am your history, you begin from me, listen to me, it could be useful to you.

Elena Ferrante

#17. Life - life - let there be life!
Better a thousand times the roaring hours
When wave and wind,
Like the Arch-Murderer in flight
From the Avenger at his heel,
Storm through the desolate fastnesses
And wild waste places of the world!

William Ernest Henley

#18. Jeddah is the natural cultural capital, an old fortified port on the Red Sea, the home of merchants and immigrants. Jeddah is historic, confident, less threatened by new ideas. Riyadh today is bible-belt fierce, and brash.

Patrick Tom Notestine

#19. Things weren't black and white, but that didn't mean you couldn't pick a side.

Kristen Simmons

#20. no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns

James Joyce