Pre Eminent Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were…
— George MacDonald
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I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.
— Andrew Carnegie
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In my eyes Marlantes has become the pre-eminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller and a deeply profound thinker…
— Sebastian Junger
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I think its pretty clear that film is the pre-eminent art form of our age. If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d…
— Banksy
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... we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory of Peter and…
— Gregory Palamas
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To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here, For these pre-eminent…
— Ruth Pitter
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The pre-eminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.
— Jimmy Carter
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The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches…
— Thomas Jefferson
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During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent…
— Nancy Pearcey
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
— Max Weber
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Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know…
— Terry Pratchett
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Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology,…
— Charles Lapworth
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Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet to people from…
— Richard Rogers
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
— Orson F. Whitney
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The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.
— Niall Ferguson
Who Wrote These Pre Eminent Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 Pre Eminent Quotes as follows: