Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it. — Owen Hart Copy Share Image
Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent. — Christo Copy Share Image
We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
So, I think there's a danger that good stuff can fall by the wayside if it doesn't conform to formula. But I… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going… — Moby Copy Share Image
If Donald Trump is one thing, he's a disruptive force who has never met a tradition and precedent that he doesn't want… — Brian Balogh Copy Share Image
We stand at a moment in history without precedent. Decisions that are ours to make over the next ten years will have… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The value of a decision as a precedent is very much enhanced by the care with which it has been considered, and… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
What are we going to say if tomorrow it occurs to some African state to send its agents into Mississippi and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Uh... what can I say? Made money. Given a launch pad for a working life. Set a precedent I had no interest… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“I opened my eyes and couldn't find a single precedent, so I became the precedent.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand — George Washington Copy Share Image
Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
If you're in the business of law you're in the business of representation and precedent. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that… — Francis Cornford Copy Share Image
Precedents deliberately established by wise men are entitled to great weight. They are evidence of truth, but only evidence...But a solitary precedent...which… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give… — Mel Torme Copy Share Image
