Quotes of Prerogative - somelinesforyou

“ Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world. ”

- Thomas a Kempis

“ We couldn't do anything better that would make this franchise better. ”

- Phil Jackson

“ Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do! ”

- Jane Taylor

“ It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. ”

- Neil Gaiman

“ When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. ”

- Stanley Baldwin

“ Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives — to give, and give, and give. ”

- John Oxenham

“ In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. ”

- John J. Ingalls

“ Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue. ”

- Martin Tupper

“ My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly be your entertainment. ”

- Britney Spears

“ It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. ”

- Neil Gaiman

“ The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. ”

- Pauline Kael

“ A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away. ”

- Charles Tupper

“ A vast chasm separates objective, constructive criticism, which emanates from concern for the higher national good, from attempts at slander and defamation. Pluralism does not permit any side to claim a monopoly on truth. No side may claim for itself the sole prerogative to confer the quality of good citizenship… ”

- King Hussein I

“ She is said to be inclined to cough noisily when he goes on too long at the rostrum; but this is a traditional prerogative of the political wife, and rather more necessary in this instance than in most. ”

- George Hill

“ Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative… ”

- Shannen Doherty

“ To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: it is the reward of self-esteem. ”

- Nathaniel Branden

“ By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn. ”

- Blaise Pascal
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