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
I certainly support anyone's prerogative to hire or not hire whomever they choose, and I definitely don't want to work for someone… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
If two people want to get married, it's their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I was never involved in arms trading. In the Russian Federation, arms trading is the prerogative of the state. — Roman Abramovich Copy Share Image
When I was appointed deputy president, I accepted it, and it is the president's prerogative to appoint or remove anyone to the… — Cyril Ramaphosa 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
What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's… — Voltaire 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
Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The United States has an absolute, uncompromising commitment to Israel's security and an absolute conviction that Israel alone must decide the steps… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council,… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
You know, in this business, you don't have any control over what the press says and how they portray things. And that's… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The best thing about being a woman, is the prerogative to have a little fun! — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want. — Charlie Peacock Copy Share Image
Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood. — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather. — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“To change her mind is a woman's prerogative, to change his mind is a man's purgatory.” — Roy Richardson Copy Share Image
It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural… — John L. Dagg Copy Share Image
The U.S. has become a defacto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It's people's own prerogative to be able to look at something and know the difference between 'this is what someone looks like… — Erin Heatherton Copy Share Image
Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of… — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image