Eminently Quotes

50 quotes by 47 authors

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of… — Lord Acton
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation… — Ambrose Bierce
I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty,… — J C Ryle
In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out as an individual… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin… — Bertrand Russell
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not… — Ada Lovelace
Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently,… — Josiah Johnson Hawes
Chess is eminently and emphatically the philospher's game. — Paul Morphy
Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and… — Neil Patrick Harris
Targeting investment returns leads investors to focus on potential upside rather on downside risk ... rather than targeting a desired rate of return, even an… — Seth Klarman
Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can… — William Banting
I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently… — Baruch Spinoza
It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer… — Naomi Klein
As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is… — Scott Harshbarger
For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was… — Wilfrid Sheed
..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as… — Gottfried Leibniz
It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time… — John Ruskin
We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to… — Arthur Erickson
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a… — Eric Hoffer

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