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
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
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
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
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
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
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds. — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and… — Peter Schjeldahl 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
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
All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure. — Felix Bloch Copy Share Image
When we speak of the origin of western democracy it's precisely here, in this territory that the modern definition of democracy first… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. — Pauline Kael 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
...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility -… — Yehudi Menuhin 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
The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
[Late-night host] is not really a job for a woman. You can't have kids and be a late-night host.I mean Samantha Bee… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few!… — Jane Taylor Copy Share Image
I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image