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Letter "P" » prerogatives
«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.»
«It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
prerogative, prerogatives, truths, utter
«Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| Keywords:
accompany, comparison, doubting, faculty, Faculty of, improvement, onward, preliminary, prerogative, prerogatives, questioning, stages, The Faculty
«Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.»
Author: Coco Chanel
(Fashion designer)
| About:
Future
| Keywords:
adolescence, elegance, escaped, possession, prerogative, prerogatives, taking possession
«I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a 'will to renewal'. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of 'crises', of rupture, re»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
| About:
Art,
Culture,
History
| Keywords:
crises, decade, history of art, last decade, prerogative, prerogatives, rupture, ruptured, succession
«A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
being brave, brave, braver, Braves, braving, coward, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, incapable, prerogative, prerogatives
«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.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| About:
Clothes
| Keywords:
emperor, half-wit, point out, prerogative, prerogatives, The Emperor, wits
«The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
ages, eunuch, House of, House of Lords, lords, prerogative, prerogatives, subscribe, subscribed, subscribe to, subscribing, throughout
«One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.»
«The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
determine, function, obey, orders, originate, originate in, originating, patriot, prerogative, prerogatives, servant, temporary, the government
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