Imperious Quotes
27 quotes by 26 authors
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Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations…
— Annie Besant
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Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than…
— Alexander Hamilton
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . . [I]t…
— Charles Darwin
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He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is possessed by two…
— Warren Winiarski
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In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes away…
— Thucydides
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If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.
— Nathan Hale
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There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the task of psychic…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
— George Sand
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Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .
— Timothy Keller
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Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.
— Matthew Henry
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The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes…
— Carl Jung
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The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or…
— Horace
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In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of the homing dove,…
— Robert Underwood Johnson
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.
— Christine Pelosi
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make…
— Pete Townshend
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DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: "Remember, m'boy," his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, "that if anyone tries to get the better of you,…
— Jasper Fforde
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