Quotes About Prominence

Catholics are frequently criticised because of the prominence and respect given to the Virgin Mary while simultaneously condemned for not giving enough prominence and respect to women.

Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super cool.

The more drastic the erosion of any given barrier to power, the more unusual or unexpected the new players, and the faster they may attain prominence. Identify the barriers to power and whether they are coming up or going down, and you can solve a large part of the puzzle of power.

In the mainstream of evangelicalism, where female senior pastors were often unwelcome, most leaders and laypeople had adopted the conservative Reformed view of gender and had forgotten (or never knew of) women's leadership in the moral crusades of the nineteenth century, or even their prominence as Bible teachers, relief workers, and missionaries prior to the 1930s.

One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, 'our side,' had captured a crucial word from the enemy . . . 'Libertarians' . . . had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over...

France will always be a great nation.

A frase do Otto é mais importante do que Os sertões de Euclides da Cunha. ritinha

When the dust raised by the great events of modern history settles, the mediocrity of the protagonists leaves the historian dumbfounded.

It must be noted that this Person of Consequence had only lately become a person of consequence, and until recently had been a person of no consequence. Though, indeed, his position even now was not reckoned of consequence in comparison with others of still greater consequence.

As if the sheer force of her anguish had made her, inexplicably, the most important person on earth

Treating rights as fundamental gives prominence to the perspective of victims, and lends itself all too readily to an emphasis on the form of rectificatory justice of most concern to victims, namely compensation.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

I was famous from birth.

As a result, many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.