It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Intuition, however illogical, is recognized as a command prerogative. — James T Kirk Copy Share Image
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Deciding not to decide is a prerogative that will still yield you a result tomorrow.” — Self Discipline Copy Share Image
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds. — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties. — Charles I of England Copy Share Image
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively. Regardless of what is happening around me I… — Bill W Copy Share Image
One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It's certainly anyone's prerogative to say, 'I liked something more when it was this' or blah blah. But there's a kind of… — Justin Kirk Copy Share Image
The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition… — Theodore Dwight Weld Copy Share Image
I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness."… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice. — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
![“No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively. Regardless of what is happening around me I will always have the prerogative, and the responsibility, of choosing what happens within me. I am the creator of my own reality. When I [review my day], I know…” quote by Bill W](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f3c/bill-w-20063_best-teacher_no-matter-how-unreasonable-others-may-se_1386548.jpg)
![“I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness." I said: "Kaz, everyone is used to the word emptiness for shunyata. This might not sit well with people. He said: "Translator's prerogative!" Then he…” quote by Joan Halifax](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/410/joan-halifax-11817_assuming_i-remember-having-a-discussion-with-kaz_727693.jpg)
