Precedent Quotes

138 quotes by 116 authors

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke… — Donald Rumsfeld
Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first… — Rob Sheffield
Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken. — Nate Silver
All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it… — Sonia Sotomayor
Stability means respecting precedents. — Arlen Specter
Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not… — John Sununu
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent. — George Washington
During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated… — Martin Filler
Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent. — Glen Cook
It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a… — Clara Barton
All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures. — Julius Caesar
The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent. — Norman Mailer
I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no… — Mary Roach
It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we… — Irvine Welsh
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor… — Steven Johnson
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried. — Henry David Thoreau
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of… — Cormac McCarthy
You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting. — Rainbow Rowell

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