Top 200 Eminent Quotes & Sayings

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

The quality of a society depends on its capacity to produce eminent personalities.

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.

God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly

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

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them?

Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.

We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.

Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers.

I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good text available.

The egotism of people who are eminent without being in the least distinguished and somehow feeling that's their due - that seems to me to be a peculiarly English phenomenon.

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.

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.

Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.

The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

I didn't say wonderful, I say eminent domain is something you need Chris. Eminent domain - if I build a highway - go ahead. I know exactly what you're saying. But if I build a highway, and if something's in the way of the highway, you're going to have to do something with that.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

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

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!

A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank.

Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesnt have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

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

Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.

The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

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.

When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.

I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .

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.

He is lofty, and I am eminent.

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

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

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes.

A president should take action to defend the United States against eminent threat. You have to. The president has to do that.

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by time.

The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

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.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

But remember this: all of these people that we're talking about, they're friends of mine. They all love the Keystone Pipeline, right? The Keystone Pipeline is all eminent domain. They're building that pipeline without eminent domain, you wouldn't be able to build.

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

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.

Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.

Change is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams!