“A drink precedes a story.”
Irish Proverb
“With this, I'm holding up a mirror to society, and every aspect of the story actually has a historical precedent.”
Charles S. Dutton
“I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.”
Clara Barton
“All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures”
Julius Caesar
“Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.”
Stephen R. Covey
“The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.”
Belva Lockwood
“Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent”
Will Durant