Top 100 Quotes About Prerogative
#1. The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.
Charles I Of England
#2. It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire
John L. Dagg
#3. I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#4. The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.
John Mortimer
#5. Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
Jane Taylor
#6. Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.
Joanne Woodward
#7. Professional development is a collective resource, not a personal prerogative. Peer engagement forges powerful links between teacher learning and student growth.
Laura Lipton
#8. It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
Neil Gaiman
#9. To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
Nathaniel Branden
#10. According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man's prerogative - and woman's - to create their own particular and private hell.
Rod Serling
#11. It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
Charles Dickens
#12. Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
Albert Pike
#14. Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'
Shannen Doherty
#15. States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative of the states.
Jeb Bush
#16. We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking is research, and all research is native, original, with him who carries it on, even if everybody else in the world already is sure of what he is still looking for.
John Dewey
#17. Love ever gives-forgives-outlives and ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogative - to give and give and give ...
William Arthur Dunkerley
#18. It is the prerogative of women to make men wait.
C.S. Woolley
#19. Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise.
T.H. White
#20. What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
James Russell Lowell
#21. I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
Oscar Isaac
#22. God's Fatherly prerogative, is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy - the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#23. The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.
Roy Moore
#24. Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
Peter L. Berger
#25. The best thing about being a woman, is the prerogative to have a little fun!
Shania Twain
#26. On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.
Andy Hargreaves
#27. It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
John Buchanan Robinson
#28. I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.
Charlie Peacock
#29. Terrorism," said the rental. "We prefer not to use that term," said Lowbeer, studying her candle flame with something that looked to Netherton to be regret, "if only because terror should remain the sole prerogative of the state." She
William Gibson
#30. A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.
E. M. Forster
#31. If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s their prerogative? But there?s no excuse for political activism masquerading as science.
Bill Vaughan
#32. It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
#33. Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel
#34. To change her mind is a woman's prerogative, to change his mind is a man's purgatory.
Roy Richardson
#35. The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one's own particular race is fairly widespread. Dr Gerard was wiser. He knew that no race, no country and no individual could be described as free. But he also knew that there were different degrees of bondage.
Agatha Christie
#36. I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative.
Alfred Kazin
#37. The church has not been given authority to make commandments; it is the duty of the church to obey the commandments already made. It is not the prerogative nor the privilege of any church to modify, minimize or in any way obscure . . . any commandment, of Jesus Christ.8
Mark Dever
#38. Most people read drivel. That is their prerogative. The case can be made that it is better to read drivel than to read nothing, on the theory that people will eventually tire of garbage and move on to something more meaty, like trash.
Joe Queenan
#39. Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.
John C. McGinley
#41. Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.
Christoph Martin Wieland
#42. It is the storyteller's prerogative to try to write, every now and then, the ending she might wish for. Even if it exists only on the white page.
Natasha Solomons
#43. The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
Pauline Kael
#44. All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it.
Bruce Willis
#45. I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
Mick Jagger
#46. To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".
Roland Barthes
#47. Terror should remain the sole prerogative of the state.
William Gibson
#48. It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#50. Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me.
Jack London
#51. It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
David Mamet
#52. The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
Tom Stoppard
#53. Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence ... and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
Irvin D. Yalom
#54. I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.
Mike Leigh
#55. Observe the great Advantage and Benefit, the Privilege and Prerogative that Christ's Servants have beyond all others; Christ writes his Letters to them; there is not a word written to Kings and great Men; but it is to shew his Servants things to come to pass
James Durham
#56. Thinking," Vrag interrupted. "Is not your prerogative, dog. That is my calling. You go where I tell you to go, you take what I tell you to take, and you kill what I tell you to kill - do I make myself plain?
S.G. Night
#57. Dictatorship of the majority over the minority would be an encroachment on the rights of the individual and their prerogative to personal freedom.
Newton Lee
#58. As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
Charles Caleb Colton
#59. A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life.
Anthony Crosland
#60. The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#61. Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
Thomas A Kempis
#62. Gabriel: This is a *travesty* of justice.
Michael: Justice is my father's prerogative. The rest of us ...
Lucifer: The rest of us can only do what we think is *right*.
Mike Carey
#63. Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.
Emily Dickinson
#64. My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.
Britney Spears
#65. Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.
Andrea Bocelli
#66. The great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful.
Milton Friedman
#67. If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine.
Ray Charles
#68. Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#69. From the moment that a man is a soldier, he becomes a slave. He is taught obedience; his will is no longer, which is the most sacred prerogative of man, guided by his own judgment. He is taught to despise human life and human suffering; this is the universal distinction of slaves.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#70. The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.
Charles Caleb Colton
#72. Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.
Calvin Coolidge
#73. Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders them deaf when women say, "No thanks," "Not interested," or even "Fuck off, creep." Smith
Jon Krakauer
#74. When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon
#75. Of course you can. It's a woman's prerogative. We get our way. Why else would god give us pussies if we weren't supposed to use them to control men? It's in the Chick Bible.
Celia Kyle
#76. Like the ideals of freedom and democracy, the right to stand one's ground was held to be an exclusively white prerogative. Even when threatened by a mob, black people were to back down or submit - never to stand up for themselves.
Charles E. Cobb Jr.
#77. Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
Bertrand Russell
#78. The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias.
Michael Ignatieff
#79. If two people want to get married, it's their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and be in the pursuit of happiness
Mariah Carey
#80. Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#81. It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
Neil Gaiman
#82. As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.
James Joseph Sylvester
#83. I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
Corliss Lamont
#84. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi
#86. Everybody's the same. People are all the same. But it's the prerogative of youth to think it's not so.
Yukio Mishima
#87. The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind.
Napoleon Hill
#88. The use of means for the obtaining of peace is ours; the bestowing of it is God's prerogative.
John Owen
#89. The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere
moral nature; with the highest prerogative
to change nature; and operating to the highest result
not to create originally, which is great; but to create anew, which is greater.
William Arthur Ward
#90. Under law the Quest for Ultimate Truth is quite clearly the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. Any bloody machine goes and actually finds it and we're straight out of a job, aren't we?
Douglas Adams
#91. To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence
an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.
Samuel Johnson
#92. I certainly support anyone's prerogative to hire or not hire whomever they choose, and I definitely don't want to work for someone who doesn't want me.
Patti Davis
#93. We must be tolerant with ourselves and allow ourselves some deviations from the straight line we set up to follow. Even more we must allow others the same prerogative.
Jill Lepore
#94. I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
Shirley Manson
#95. Stupidity is the prerogative of the wealthy. Pauper's field is crammed with smart guys.
Chandler Brossard
#96. The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
Bob Brown
#97. Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.
Anthony Burgess
#98. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predictable of calamities.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#99. Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.
Ronald Reagan
#100. Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can assign them their duty. The Republic of Letters is more ancient than monarchy, and of far higher character in the world than the vassal court of Britain.
Thomas Paine
