Prerogative Quotes
83 quotes by 77 authors
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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
— Francis Bacon
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Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with…
— Peter L. Berger
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Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
— Coco Chanel
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The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no…
— Theodore Dwight Weld
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It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire
— John L. Dagg
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Love ever gives-forgives-outlives and ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogative - to give and give…
— William Arthur Dunkerley
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.
— Louis Dudek
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If two people want to get married, it's their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and…
— Mariah Carey
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The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.
— Charles I of England
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First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to control drug rules.…
— George W. Bush
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My God loves everybody, and if yours doesn't, that's your prerogative, but don't tell me how to live my life and don't tell my best…
— Sophia Bush
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You know, in this business, you don't have any control over what the press says and how they portray things. And that's their prerogative. But…
— Dick Cheney
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The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.
— Abraham Lincoln
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind. Our…
— Ronald Reagan
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We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.
— Otto Lilienthal
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I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal.…
— Eugene Ionesco
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Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public…
— Shannen Doherty
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One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy,…
— Sigmund Freud
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Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
— Stanley Baldwin
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