Prerogative Quotes

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The first is the law, the last prerogative. — John Dryden
I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a… — Mike Leigh
The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now. — Bob Brown
Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our… — John C. McGinley
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too. — Emily Dickinson
We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated… — Rachel Carson
If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s… — Bill Vaughan
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. — Neil Gaiman
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs. — David Mamet
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather. — Shirley Manson
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which… — Albert Pike
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his… — John Buchanan Robinson
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout… — Tom Stoppard
The government is merely a servantâ€•merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide… — Mark Twain
I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I am surprised how difficult for people is to say "I love you". They only say the three magic words when they are sure they… — Paulo Coelho
The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed not only to… — Brennan Manning

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