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A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace and conciliation.
— Lord Acton
The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.
— Mark Twain
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
— Ernst Mach
so he died, at the conclusion of an eminently useful life, and thus obtained his crown in Paradise.
— Diana Gabaldon
In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster.
— Mark Twain
A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance ... Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.
— Pierre L. Van Den Berghe
Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.
— Washington Irving
Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.
— Honore De Balzac
emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers
— Stephen King
Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.
— Stephen King
He had a particular pride in the phrase eminently practical, which was considered to have a special application to him.
— Charles Dickens
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.
— Jules Breton
: woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be.
— Simone De Beauvoir
More than almost any current book, DTU will wake the reader from his dogmatic slumbers. It is eminently readable, challenging, and provocative.
— John Hospers
Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.
— Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
— J. Paul Getty
And then the critics, going back to the novels of his maturity, found that their English had a nervous, racy vigour that eminently suited the matter.
— W. Somerset Maugham
While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one
— Henry Seidel Canby
Gilbert, having tried to please both sides, succeeded, as is usual and eminently right, in pleasing neither.
— L.M. Montgomery
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
— Ada Lovelace
is pre-eminently a redemptive system. It
— Ed Wharton
[Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable.
— George Wendt
Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.
— Preet Bharara
The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.
— Daniel Kemmis
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
— Jules Verne
The presidency is not merely an administrative office ... It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
eminently practical,
— George Rogers
All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
All eminently godly people have been more or less addicted to fasting.
— Thomas Cartwright
The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.
— Azim Premji