20 Eminent Quotes for You to Enjoy

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. Edmund Burke

Great Justice Legal Society Circumstances Lies Civil Civil Society Eminent Policy Itself Departure Any Any Circumstances Suspicion Being Standing

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. B. R. Ambedkar

Great Man Society Great Man Eminent He Ready Different Servant

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. Henry Ward Beecher

Education School Church Eminent Imperfect Exhibition Gallery Christians

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. Charles Kendall Adams

Success Distinction Above Determines Eminent Excellence Student Attains Simply Over Him Doing Ultimate Greatness Very Required Ever Amount

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences. Miguel de Cervantes

Time Man Learning Degree Other Hunger Weakness Costs Eminent Attain Head Him Stomach Graduation Watching Inconvenience

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. William Godwin

One Thing Eminent No-One Importance Learn Child Probable Thing

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness. Anna Seward

Good Will Though Record Touch Eminent Tenderness Failings Just

Companies are transcending power now. We are becoming the eminent vehicles for change and influence, and capital structures that matter. If companies shut down, the stock market would collapse. Chamath Palihapitiya

Change Matter Power Down Market Collapse Would Structures Eminent Vehicles Becoming Stock Stock Market Influence Transcending Capital Companies Now Shut

There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing. Craig Brown

Few Interview Television Out Eminent Trailing Person Effortlessly Few Things Microphone Getting Quite Often Enjoyable Things Watching

Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have. Flavius Josephus

Great Righteousness Father Reputation City Only Eminent Higher Had Nobility Greatest Greatest City His Account Now Jerusalem

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. George Bernard Shaw

Life Death Men Eminent Reveals Levels

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers. Heinrich Schliemann

Work Disagree Research Aim Sole Able Some Only Eminent Fact Occupied Am Foreign Historians Historical Historical Fact Establish Which

Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the Bolshevik mentality according to which an author in general, and an eminent author in particular, is always guilty, and must be punished accordingly. Ismail Kadare

Life Dictatorship My Life Spent Punished Guilty Must General Having Mentality Eminent Part Particular Greater Always Am According Accordingly Very Familiar Author Which Communist Bolshevik

The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy. Jim Garrison

One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue. Jim Ryun

Government Property Decision Become Definition Would Eminent Parks Generate Taken Simply Roads Loophole Greater Revenue Private Domain Private Property Expect Tax Unfortunately Public Available Manipulate Land Creates Use

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. Joseph Addison

Man Age World Every Think Indeed Weakness Folly Eminent Through Passed Affected Persecution Antiquity Escaping Censure Fiery Persons Illustrious

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics. Nicolaus Copernicus

Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force. P. J. O'Rourke

Eminent Like Force Deadly Domain Governments Certain Certain Things Things Monopolies

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