I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience. — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution protects citizens against cruel and unusual punishment. And there is a growing body of legal precedent… — Allyson Robinson Copy Share Image
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If we allow the United States to set the precedent that national borders don't matter when it comes to the protection of… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I know my judicial role is further constrained by careful adherence to precedent. — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
In the Studio Museum in Harlem, when I was dealing with that community and dealing with my peers in the streets, it… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If we set the precedent of limiting the First Amendment, in order to protect the sensibilities of those who are offended by… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Saddam is neither friend nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It's the question of precedent:… — Robin Cook Copy Share Image
One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine. — Junius 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
In terms of my work with Nike, obviously signing Michael Jordan to a $500,000 contract in 1984 set a new precedent for… — Sonny Vaccaro Copy Share Image
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 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
Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
I love Obama, and I love the fact that it's a black president of the United States of America, but he's not… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
I don't think in Art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one & terrifying & threatening & bursting with hope. — Martha Graham 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
Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked—not least by his own party, which… — Mark Gevisser Copy Share Image
Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important,… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it. — Tessa Thompson Copy Share Image
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
