To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings. — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did. — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
Women will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans. — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
The first few touches of the game, that's kind of like setting the precedent for me. — Lindsey Horan Copy Share Image
In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
I'm not the first Christian to have a fruity past. I hesitate to compare myself to St Augustine or St Paul, but… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
The scale of marital breakdowns in the West since 1960 has no historical precedent that I know of, and seems unique, .… — Lawrence Stone Copy Share Image
To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of… — Gary Hamel 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
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 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
Resolved, That we especially protest against this present attempt to force all the people to follow the religious dictates of a part… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As… — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country… — George Washington Copy Share Image
People should always be wary of that because the precedent is set. And it's so much easier to build on a foundation… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era… — Mary Ritter Beard 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
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 Copy Share Image
Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances. — Alfred Lord Tennyson 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
I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices. — Greg Walden 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
