Quotes About Eminence

the kind of man who referred to everyone he worked with as eminent.)

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.

Tungnath's lonely eminence gives it a magic of its own. To get there (or beyond), one passes through some of the most delightful temperate forest in the Garhwal Himalaya. Pilgrim, or trekker, or just plain rambler such as myself, one comes away a better person, forest-refreshed, and more aware of what the world was really like before mankind began to strip it bare. Duiri

Yet those who claim their liberty but not their duty to the civilization that ensures it, live a half-life, having indulged their self-interest at the cost of their self-respect…. Sacrifice for a cause greater than your self-interest, and you invest your lives with the eminence of that cause, your self-respect assured.

There is nothing as special as watching greatness.

Being around greatness is always a thrill.

Today I am the greatest of all time.

It was a great thing,—a very great thing;—he had no hesitation in saying that it was one of the greatest things out.  He didn't believe a greater thing had ever come out.

One of the benefits of Dr. Kreuger's eminence was an unlimited computer budget:

High on a throne of royal state, which farOutshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind,Or where the gorgeous East with richest handShowers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold,Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'dTo that bad eminence; and from despairThus high uplifted beyond hope, aspiresBeyond thus high, insatiate to pursueVain war with heav'n.

I deem him one of the greatest beings alive in our time. I do not see his like elsewhere. I fear whatever our need we shall never see his like again.

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

Great is the glory of God.

I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think.

A plaque and platinum status is whack if I'm not the baddest.

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.

It stands on a slight eminence

Of the House of Representatives, Rep. James G. Blaine later remarked, "There is no place where so little deference is paid to reputation previously acquired, or to eminence won outside; no place where so little consideration is shown for the feelings or the failures of beginners. What a man gains, he gains by sheer force of his own character,

I regard Clarissa and In Search of Lost Time as the two most eminent of all novels, surpassing even Tolstoy and Dickens.

Suddenly we were in Hawaii—tropical mountains running down to sparkling seas, sweeping bays, flawless beaches guarded by listing palms, little green and rocky islands standing off the headlands. From time to time we drove through sunny canefields, overlooked by the steep, blue eminence of the Great Dividing Range.