Best Eminently Quotes

50 Eminently quotes by 47 unique authors

What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison d'etre for many… — Caridad Svich
That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form the highest departments… — Charles Babbage
Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself. — Thomas Brooks
The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of… — William Godwin
I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always… — Adam Baldwin
No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted… — Frederic Farrar
Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes. — Preet Bharara
A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who… — Thomas B. Macaulay
To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all… — James Gibbons
Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States lost annually the… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. — J. Paul Getty
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one. — Jules Verne
It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will… — John Calvin
Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all. — Stephen King
...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there… — Charles Darwin
... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a… — Stephen Jay Gould
I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it… — George Haven Putnam
The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source;… — Gottfried Leibniz
I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but… — Samuel Johnson
CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was no doubt inflicted upon mythology for the sins of its… — Ambrose Bierce
His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it has… — Henry David Thoreau

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