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I don't think in Art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one & terrifying & threatening & bursting with hope.
— Martha Graham
A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not.
— Walt Whitman
Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.
— J Harlen Bretz
Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
She probably longed to slap my face. They can hit us, there's Scriptural precedent. But not with any implement. Only with their hands.
— Margaret Atwood
You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.
— Rainbow Rowell
One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.
— Annabelle Selldorf
Too frightened to set a precedent, but quite happy to pass the buck.
— Jeffrey Archer
Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
— Horace Mann
When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent ... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
— Owen Hart
Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
— Will Durant
Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.
— Edward Young
I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.
— Annabelle Selldorf
The history of the Holocaust is not over. Its precedent is eternal, and its lessons have not yet been
— Timothy Snyder
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
— Elbert Hubbard
I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.
— Tessa Thompson
Don't let the urgent take precedent over the important.
— Michael Hyatt
A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.
— Kenneth Langone
Come along,' I told the donkey. 'There's a precedent for this.' Manny
— Kerry Greenwood
There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.
— Agnes Denes
She was an expert in dealing with situations without precedent.
— L.M. Montgomery
Precedents once established are so much positive power.
— James Madison
Everything I write has a precedent in truth.
— Ian Fleming
A more ancient precedent of ransom, that we may not always be tormented by our shame.
— Gregory Maguire
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
— George Washington
Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.
— Thomas Jefferson
Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
— Madame De Stael
I would rather create a precedent than find one.
— William O. Douglas
Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.
— Bill Kristol
Pacifism, not murder, is precedent. To say that war presupposes peace begs the question; it does not explain how violent impulses can be overcome. In
— Sarah LaChance Adams
Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Precedent goes in support of justice.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
— Claude Debussy
As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices.
— Greg Walden
The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.
— Norman Mailer
You're a biological wonder without precedent.
— Toni Sorenson
Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.
— Andrew Jackson
Although I know no actual precedent for it, in the case of a particularly powerful Double, such as was given in this romance to Queen
— H. Rider Haggard
No crime has been without a precedent.
— Seneca The Younger