Quotes About Precedence

Perish the men who said our good things before us!

The RBI governor post is very high in the Warrant of Precedence and requires a patriotic and unconditional commitment to our nation.

But never had come first.

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

If money go before, all ways do lie open.

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

The Germans would appear as the disturbers of peace, as they already do to some people, merely because they were the first to take the path along which all the others were ultimately to follow.

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Those Greeks and Romans," he protested, "they are so overrated. They only said everything first. I've said just as good things myself. But they got in before me."3

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.

It was not unusual to be called Son of God in ancient Judaism. God calls David his son: "today I have begotten you" (Psalms 2:7). He even calls Israel his "first-born son" (Exodus 4:22). But in every case, Son of God is meant as a title, not a description. Paul's view of Jesus as the literal son of God is without precedence in second Temple Judaism.

Small to greater matters must give way.

Your assignment is a pre-cursor to someone else's assignment. In the same breath, someone else's assignment is a pre-cursor to yours.

It is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

The fact that one thing precedes another doesn't mean one thing causes another." "Oh," she said. "I know all that. But do I want to risk getting killed for some fucking formal logic rule?" "No," I said. "You don't.