
My first novel was rejected by some of the most
eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench. —
Wilbur Smith

An
eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one. —
Tacitus

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

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

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

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

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
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He [said of one or other
eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half. —
Erwin Chargaff

Reference to
eminent figures of the past serves to lend tone to what would otherwise be merely an honest search for the truth. —
Bernard Suits

The pre-
eminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine. —
Jimmy Carter

I believe the term is '
eminent domain.'
Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government, —
Terry Pratchett

Writers, however mature and wise and
eminent, are children at heart. —
Edna O'Brien

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

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

We like to know the weakness of
eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority. —
Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

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