Quotes About Precedence

Did you follow me here?" I asked. Lake shrugged. "The word follow seems to suggest you got here first.

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

You always stand on the shoulders of your predecessor.

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

I do not wish you to believe that I assume to be any better than others who have gone before me.

programmers believe that their own imperatives of construction simplicity and ease of acquisition—of prewritten source code in their case—take precedence over any suggestions made by others.

It is no easy task to throw one's rank into the shade by one's virtue, or to gain the affection of men who are forced to yield you precedence.

To give organisations precedence over persons is to subordinate ends to means.

It is not good in itself; it is good only to the extent that it promotes the good of the individuals who are the parts of the collective whole. To give organizations precedence over persons is to subordinate ends to means.

First things first, second things never.

What does your friend Abdullah mean, they were here before us? Abraham was here more than four thousand years ago. Thousands of years before Mohammed, who died, if I remember right, in A.D. 632.

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

Why fear the nothing that is in store for us when it is no different from the nothing that preceded us?

Whenever you hold a three-card sequence or longer at the head of your suit you always lead the top card of the sequence. The top of a sequence rule takes precedence over the fourth-highest rule.

Many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]

But the general/ specific canon makes all the difference if the general provision has been enacted later.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

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

The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.

When Israel is treated as exactly analogous with the body of Christ, then Moses must be not only equated with Christ as an equal lawgiver, Moses actually must be made the greater lawgiver and Christ merely the greatest interpreter of Moses, because Moses came first.

Set the cart before the horse.