I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather. — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds. — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“To change her mind is a woman's prerogative, to change his mind is a man's purgatory.” — Roy Richardson Copy Share Image
Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It's people's own prerogative to be able to look at something and know the difference between 'this is what someone looks like… — Erin Heatherton Copy Share Image
Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan may, for whatever reasons of his own, do nothing of the sort with the Nobel committee. Up there on Parnassus,… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
If you want a candidate to defend life and marriage and religious liberty and the Second Amendment and to appoint strong constitutionalists… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility -… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
It's certainly anyone's prerogative to say, 'I liked something more when it was this' or blah blah. But there's a kind of… — Justin Kirk Copy Share Image
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness."… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition… — Theodore Dwight Weld Copy Share Image
Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice. — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie. — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine. — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I certainly support anyone's prerogative to hire or not hire whomever they choose, and I definitely don't want to work for someone… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
If two people want to get married, it's their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image