Precedent Quote by Howard Carter Download Open image “It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.” — Howard Carter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Precedent Seeing Sight
It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of… — Hernando Cortes Copy Share Image
The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World. — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal [on the inner chamber of the tomb of Tutankhamen], for… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water skins lying… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme. — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself. — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
“...as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold -… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
'Diversity' is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Women will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I pay tribute to John Major's achievement in persuading the other 11 Community Heads of Government that they could move ahead to a Social… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every presidential candidate for decades has released his tax returns, and I've released 33 years of my tax returns. The American people deserve to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents. — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
