Top 34 Presiding Quotes

#1. The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

Neville Cardus

Presiding Quotes #30316
#2. We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

Joshua A. Norton

Presiding Quotes #77428
#3. Well did I come to know the presiding dryads of those trees, and often have I watched their wild dances in the struggling beams of a waning moon - but of these things I must not now speak.

H.P. Lovecraft

Presiding Quotes #156562
#4. If it be the characteristic of a worldly man that he desecrates what is holy, it should be of the Christian to consecrate what is secular, and to recognize a present and presiding divinity in all things.

Thomas Chalmers

Presiding Quotes #391216
#5. Perry was in charge of music; Asher, lighting, seating, and structures; and presiding the service was Elaine, who was, not suprisingly, a certified minister and wedding planner.

Wendy Wunder

Presiding Quotes #425920
#6. He moved like some ancient god of lore, presiding over a battlefield of miniature mortals who couldn't see him, but certainly felt his almighty hand. Except, if Dennison was a god, his specialty certainly wasn't war.

Brandon Sanderson

Presiding Quotes #478847
#7. Leadership is not about sitting and presiding, it's about a going somewhere. To be buoyant, you must not only ignite passion around a common quest, you must also mobilize your team to take a journey with you toward a common destination, or what I call a "real ambition."

Kevin Allen

Presiding Quotes #632651
#8. I want to contrast this ceramic image of the world with the distinctly different dramatic image that is the presiding image of the Hindus. Their idea is that God did not make the world, but acted it. That is to say, every person and every thing is a role or part that the Godhead is playing.

Alan W. Watts

Presiding Quotes #641024
#9. The presiding judge ruled that a black person must surely be insane to think that he could be admitted to the University of Mississippi.

Yuval Noah Harari

Presiding Quotes #660327
#10. I didn't look in Marie's direction. I didn't have time to, because the presiding judge told me in bizarre language that I was to have my head cut off in a public square in the name of the French people...

Albert Camus

Presiding Quotes #730877
#11. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

Ronald Reagan

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#12. Presiding over the entire attack there will be, in du Bois Reymond's words, "a general feeling of disorder," which may be experienced in either physical or emotional terms, and tax or elude the patient's powers of description.

Oliver Sacks

Presiding Quotes #789128
#13. But, you know, I'm presiding over an institution that was designed not to work.

John Boehner

Presiding Quotes #791192
#14. Today, president Paul Biya is presiding over a nation where more than 80% of its physicians are abroad, where more than 90% of its doctorate degree holders are abroad, where Cameroonians invest abroad more than at home, where Cameroonians are voting against the system with their feet;

Janvier Tchouteu

Presiding Quotes #843162
#15. Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more than chiaroscuro ... and the other, by making the colors very distinct and forcible ... but still, the presiding principle of both those manners is simplicity.

Joshua Reynolds

Presiding Quotes #854058
#16. Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter.

Joshua Reynolds

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#17. Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to be bored to death, even while presiding at her own shrine.

Charles Dickens

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#18. Many years ago, it was my opportunity to serve as president of the Canadian Mission. There we had a branch with very limited priesthood. We always had a missionary presiding over the branch. I received a strong impression that we needed to have a member of the branch preside there.

Thomas S. Monson

Presiding Quotes #1003635
#19. The vast majority of criminal cases are settled by plea bargaining. Only the rare civil case goes to trial, not least because most judges now see "case management" rather than presiding over trials as their primary responsibility. Late

Mark Tushnet

Presiding Quotes #1019601
#20. At the end of the century, humans will look back at our impact on the planet and World War II will be a footnote compared to us presiding over the largest loss of biodiversity since a meteor hit the planet sixty-five million years ago.

Louie Psihoyos

Presiding Quotes #1119540
#21. A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.

Samuel Rogers

Presiding Quotes #1159390
#22. President is a curious term for the American head of state, because "presiding" in any meaningful sense is the one thing the president of the United States does not do.

Garrett Epps

Presiding Quotes #1315609
#23. God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above, but not raised up; below; but not depressed; wholly above, presiding; wholly without, embracing; wholly within, filling.

Madeleine L'Engle

Presiding Quotes #1382348
#24. Hillary Clinton was personally presiding over the dissolution of moral authority - particularly applied to presidents - because she looked the other way, because she tolerated it.

Rush Limbaugh

Presiding Quotes #1445621
#25. Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.

Margaret Mead

Presiding Quotes #1545480
#26. [The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.

Samuel Johnson

Presiding Quotes #1584412
#27. You see why the psalm threw me for a loop. The first verse has God presiding over an assembly of gods. Doesn't that sound like a pantheon - something we associate with polytheism and mythology?

Michael S. Heiser

Presiding Quotes #1599497
#28. And eventually, he (Charles Manson) testified to an empty court, as Bugliosi had convinced the presiding judge Older, that Manson's hypnotic powers might convince the jury he was innocent.

Nikolas Schreck

Presiding Quotes #1630491
#29. The presiding spirit of Welsh history has been the shape-shifter Gwydion the Magician, who always changed his shape and always stayed the same.

Gwyn Alfred Williams

Presiding Quotes #1643546
#30. Head into the children's bedroom, where our babysitter, Teri, is presiding over a massive game of Twister. Minnie doesn't understand Twister, but she understands rolling around on the mat, getting in everyone's way, so that's what she's doing.

Sophie Kinsella

Presiding Quotes #1660989
#31. see a little village a mile ahead of us with a venerable church on a mound in the middle of it gravely presiding over the surrounding wide parish of corn.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

Presiding Quotes #1680125
#32. Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people on a journey, and on any hero's journey there will be a setback.

Kevin Allen

Presiding Quotes #1723121
#33. I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

Alphonse Karr

Presiding Quotes #1782779
#34. Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

Beatrice Webb

Presiding Quotes #1848667

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