Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
It wasn't the best choice. I made a mistake. It was not prohibited. It was not in any way disallowed. And as… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by… — Ernest Starling Copy Share Image
I think it will be found that he who speaks with most authority on a given subject is not ignorant of what… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think with great affection and deep gratitude of my venerable predecessor, Benedict XVI, who during these years of his pontificate has… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I desire before I leave the world, as my best legacy to my family,, my serious, solemn advice, to make choice of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One of my trips was to meet with the Gulf Cooperation Council with all the Saudi foreign ministers, and when we started… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think the accurate description for the George W. Bush administration is a military plutocracy. Having lived and worked in the United… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Politically or ideologically oriented evaluations of Chief Justice Rehnquist should not overlook what a successful and popular chief justice he was within… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Now, some have said I blame too many problems on my predecessor, but let's not forget that's a practice that was initiated… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
It's rare that the sequel to a good movie lives up to expectations. Such is the case with Die Hard 2, the… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
I want to be a traditional king first and foremost, building on the tradition of my predecessors standing for continuity and stability… — Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange Copy Share Image
Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the… — Mark Bauerlein Copy Share Image
It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
