(193 quotes found)
“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
“And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy and stillness, this deathly constriction and loneliness and unrelatedness, this waste and empty hell of lovelenessness and despair, such as I had now t”
Hermann Hesse
“The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.”
Belva Lockwood
“A drink precedes a story.”
Irish Proverb
“Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent”
Will Durant
“The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows”
Charles M. de Talleyrand
“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
“To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.”
Irving R. Kaufman
“The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.”
Claude Debussy
