(65 quotes found)
“No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction”
Charles Kendall Adams
“With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his”
George Bernard Shaw
“Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.”
William McKinley
“For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.”
Wilfrid Sheed
“It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.”
William Godwin
“If you believed yourself to be a writer of eminence, you are now assured of being over the hill-not a sturdy mountain flower but a little wilted lily of the valley.”
William H. Gass
“A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares”
Igor Stravinsky
“Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.”
Chamfort
“What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science”
Thomas Carlyle
“Farm Bureau worked for eminent domain reform for the last three years in Missouri, and we are pleased such comprehensive legislation is being considered by the Missouri General Assembly. The general public wants these reforms implemented, and our organization is going to do everything we can to see that appropriate legislation is approved.”
Charles E. Kruse
