Quotes About Preeminence

The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s.

El objetivo primordial de los criollos blancos que formaban la élite era mantener su preeminencia a cualquier precio, y una minoría —Simón Bolívar, José de San Martín y sus seguidores— también buscaba la independencia de España. Por el contrario, como consecuencia del odio que sentían hacia los criollos, los más leales a la monarquía fueron las gentes de color.

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

En la vida se es actor o público, timonel o galeote. Es tan doloroso pasar del timón al remo, como salir del escenario para ocupar una butaca, aunque ésta sea de primera fila. El que ha conocido el aplauso no sabe resignarse a la oscuridad; ésa es la parte más cruel de toda preeminencia fundada en el capricho ajeno o en aptitudes físicas transitorias.

Never ", said Winston to his cousin " waste time making munitions. Be a GUN, and shoot other's munitions. Don't waste time having ideas." (cousin deeply impressed..but did not achieve lasting preeminence)

To be able to shit on people before they get a chance to shit on you. That's power.

What then do you think is my advantage over you?

He bore a certain "hubris," she thought, of the kind that carries with it the seeds of its own destruction. Everything about Robert's personality— from his abrupt, jerky way of walking to such little things as the making of a salad dressing—displayed, she thought, "a great need to declare his preeminence.

Our nation, in a short quarter-millennium, catapulted itself to global preeminence by solving the world's greatest problems and exporting those solutions to the rest of the world.

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

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I thought her looking as she always does: superior in all respects to everyone around her

Rome's subsequent establishment of a papacy in place of the Rome patriarchate was a further effort to extend its credentials over the "lesser" ranks of patriarchs in the major Christian centers to the East. This issue of preeminence persists even today.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

There was not one among the whole row of young men who could be compared with him.

The scientific outlook is a unique feature of post-Renaissance European society that has contributed heavily to its modern technological preeminence.

The secret is yet another set of three P's: Be preeminent, be preemptive, and be proprietary.

There was a time, in living memory, when this nation bestrode the planet like a titan.

Give me one man from among ten thousand if he is the best

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.

But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

Designating "(Fill in the blank) First" as the golden rule of international relations provides an all-purpose justification for tyrants to do as they like.

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war.

He who comes first, eats first.