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Quotes About Eminently

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.
~ William Godwin
A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace and conciliation.
~ Lord Acton
Both of them, in their eminently incisive ways, pushed me to make explicit sensibilities that they each reminded me were my own.
~ Ann Laura Stoler
I've got that hands-on experience with federal judges and how important it is to have judges like Neil Gorsuch, who will take a rule-of-law approach to the decision-making process. I think he's eminently qualified.
~ Luther Strange
It takes a special courage to challenge the rigid confines of our accustomed story. It's not easy to radically alter our views about where happiness comes from but it's eminently possible.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.
~ Washington Irving
The northeast trade winds that blow at a steady fifteen knots onto the cliffs and reefs of the islands' lee shores produce endless trains of eminently glidable waves.
~ Simon Winchester
Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.
~ Preet Bharara
The Leckerys are not fit consorts for people such as the Palindrakes, whereas we of the Malagash dynasty eminently are.
~ Storm Constantine
..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
He had a particular pride in the phrase eminently practical, which was considered to have a special application to him.
~ Charles Dickens
I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there's joys and stresses that will all scale themselves magnificently to fit the production.
~ David Lowery
so he died, at the conclusion of an eminently useful life, and thus obtained his crown in Paradise.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.
~ William Godwin