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To find the courage to keep writing after constant failure is awesomeness. Winning is eminent.
— Sereda Aleta Dailey
It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit.
— George Washington
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.
— Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal
It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.
— Thomas Brooks
But it is a noteworthy fact that eminent qualities in men may often be traced to similar qualities in their mothers.
— Unknown
I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.
— Andrew Carnegie
Everyone could have been pre-eminent at something, if they had been aware of their best quality.
— Baltasar Gracian
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
— B.R. Ambedkar
A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank.
— Walter Hadwen
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
— Max Weber
Left to faggots and their defenders, all our forefathers, eminent ancestors and international heroes were either homosexual or bisexual.
— Bill Gaede
An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
— George Bernard Shaw
The quality of a society depends on its capacity to produce eminent personalities.
— Gonzalo Fernandez De La Mora
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
— Jonathan Swift
For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.
— Shirley Hazzard
We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.
— Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles
The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Change is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams!
— Greg Smith
I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'
Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government, — Terry Pratchett
Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government, — Terry Pratchett
The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was pre-eminent in intelligence.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
— Winston Churchill
Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
— Anna Seward
Your illustrations are really good." "You've mastered another world than I.
— Robert H. Eisenman
The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.
— Niall Ferguson
Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
— Orson F. Whitney
Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.
— Thomas A Kempis
He is lofty, and I am eminent.
— Gough Whitlam
Logic is the youth of mathematics, mathematics is the manhood of logic. This brilliant mot of the eminent philosopher of mathematics is no
— Alfred Korzybski
Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.
— Wilbur Smith
Darwin said if you made a list of eminent men, next of a list of eminent women, it was obvious that men were better at everything.
— Jacky Fleming
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.
— William Godwin
The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.
— Jose Maria Peman
We must name the eminent and fascinating Prince N. - once the vanquisher of female hearts all over Europe.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.
— Jean De La Bruyere
I really never cared about any occupation or stream. I just wanted to be an eminent personality.
— Bharat Budhani
Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.
— Winston Churchill
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
— Aristotle.
Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
— P. J. O'Rourke
There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.
— Lytton Strachey
When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.
— Livy
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
— George Bernard Shaw
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
— Seneca The Younger
Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet to people from across the globe.
— Richard Rogers
God created you not as an ordinary personality, but eminent, peculiar, and with a special assignment
— Sunday Adelaja
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.
— Joseph Addison
What does eminent domain mean?" Stewart asked. "It means you're shit out of luck," Ross said.
— Ron Rash