Usurping Quotes

#1. Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!

Michel De Montaigne

#2. One single object ... [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. Facts are not merely finding a footing-place in history but they are usurping the domain of fancy and have invaded the kingdom of romance. Their chilling touch is over everything. They are vulgarising mankind.

Oscar Wilde

#4. No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.

Ronald Reagan

#5. In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

Saint Ignatius

#6. I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping all legitimate authority.

Marquis De Lafayette

#7. Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.

James Fenton

#8. Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

Mitt Romney

#9. The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

Todd Akin

#10. I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.

Edith Wharton

#11. It is only by remembering that 'Another lives in me' that we can die daily to that old, false, usurping self, and that we can continue to be drawn further in and higher up into the life of God. To 'practice the presence' is to continually call to mind this great reality.

Leanne Payne

#12. Very well. What do you do as a mercenary?"
"I specialize in usurping thrones. They call me the kingmaker." Bragging now?

Kresley Cole

#13. During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames.

Michelle Malkin

#14. The best investment you will ever make is investing in your best self.

Robin S. Sharma

#15. I think one reason I really like women and like working with women is because of my sisters.

Michael Keaton

#16. A hero is not a hero because of their courage, but because of the courage they give to others.

Paul Clayton Gibbs

#17. In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish,

Klaus Schwab

#18. It's a lot like a biology study date,' I told my reflection nonchalantly. 'Only ... Without the biology and studying.'
Biology study date ...

Becca Fitzpatrick

#19. The 'egoism' that is used to hurt others will hurt one's own self. The 'egoism' that is used to give happiness to others becomes cause for his own happiness.

Dada Bhagwan

#20. No one is Perfect; but ALL are perfect for their Purpose.

Jennifer R. Vassell

#21. As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language, feels comfortable to you.

Edward Hirsch

#22. I am well aware that the writers of New York, London, and Toronto are more readily noticed, though the shadowy and potent Ozarks Literary Cabal does what it can for me, then nightly joins me for dinner and calls me 'honey.'

Daniel Woodrell

#23. I write about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible.

Kesha

#24. Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty; and meaning, not mandates.

Stephanie Pace Marshall