An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I always ask young writers, 'Are you certain you want to be a writer? If you're absolutely sure, then do it.' If… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In the new science of the twenty-first century, not physical force but spiritual force will lead the way. Mental and spiritual gifts… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
this was I and not yet I, this was the wife of the President of the United States and she took precedence… — Grace Coolidge Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by… — Samuel Logan Brengle Copy Share Image
“You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition;… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. — Edward Dmytryk Copy Share Image
I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Never let your heart take precedence over reason, otherwise you will have problems. — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty.… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Since I started acting, I always or often find work takes precedence with me. And that is not necessarily a great rule… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the… — David Korten Copy Share Image
