Quotes for All
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, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, … Read more
It’s people’s own prerogative to be able to look at something and know the difference between ‘this is what someone looks like with make-up on’ and ‘this is what they look like in real life.’ Erin Heatherton
Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too. Emily Dickinson
Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predicatable of calamities. Elizabeth Gilbert
A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that … Read more
It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those … Read more
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. E. M. Forster
Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state. Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. Francis Bacon