“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
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather. — Shirley Manson 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
I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want. — Charlie Peacock 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
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. — Pauline Kael 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
When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
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
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
Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly… — John C. McGinley 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
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
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
...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
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
I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
That this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if… — Thomas Jefferson 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
There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence… — Michael Hayden 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
Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world. — Thomas a Kempis 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
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
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind. — Napoleon Hill 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
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure. — Felix Bloch Copy Share Image
I just like being me, and whether the people love me or hate me, that's their own prerogative. — Bobby Roode 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
If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine. — Ray Charles 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
I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it… — Alfred Kazin 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
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