Precedent Quotes · Page 2

If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.

— Howard Carter

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting…

— Martha Graham

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

— George Washington

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

— Will Durant

I know my judicial role is further constrained by careful adherence to precedent.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

— Floyd Abrams

I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.

— Tessa Thompson

You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.

— Rainbow Rowell

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

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

Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in…

— Elie Wiesel

If confirmed to the D.C. Circuit, I would follow Roe v. Wade faithfully and fully. That would be binding precedent of the…

— Brett Kavanaugh

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

As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion…

— Samuel Johnson

Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important,…

— Phil Robertson

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go…

— Thomas Paine

Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression…

— George H. W. Bush

While Roberts wanted to give the impression he respected the right to privacy and the precedent of Roe vs. Wade, his answers…

— Nancy Keenan

I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my…

— Mary Roach

You need to not be able to do anything else, to be in this business. If you have other options, in those…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

Uh... what can I say? Made money. Given a launch pad for a working life. Set a precedent I had no interest…

— Alex Garland

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability…

— Frank Herbert

Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education…

— James Madison

It really was not that difficult a process, because I was playing [Data from Star Trek] something that doesn't exist. So it…

— Brent Spiner

I don't think in Art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one & terrifying & threatening & bursting with hope.

— Martha Graham

A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.

— Ari Melber

When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

— Owen Hart

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

— Nate Silver

The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.

— Albert Einstein

What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.

— Tacitus

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.

— Thomas Jefferson

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

— Tacitus

I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.

— Rand Paul

Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

“I opened my eyes and couldn't find a single precedent, so I became the precedent.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand

— George Washington

If you're in the business of law you're in the business of representation and precedent.

— David Lammy

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge