Prerogative Quotes

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Brave, Coward

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel

Future, Taken, Elegance

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon

Great, Friends, Forgive

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
Albert Pike

Doubt, Reason, Progress

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
Tom Stoppard

Power, Able, House

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
Shirley Manson

Change, Weather, Mood

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
Neil Gaiman

Fool, Else, Speak

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
Neil Gaiman

Children, Point, Clothes

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
David Mamet

Government, Needs, Determine

The first is the law, the last prerogative.
John Dryden

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
Corliss Lamont

Freedom, True, Decisions

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
Peter L. Berger

Society, Understand, Others

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
John Buchanan Robinson

Guilty, Himself, Felt

The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.
Roy Moore

God, Government, Business

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'
Shannen Doherty

Life, Experience, Drunk

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
Bob Brown

Business, Here, Longer

The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
Albert Bushnell Hart

Direct, Royal, Colonies

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
Pauline Kael

Fool, Artist, Himself

I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.
Mike Leigh

Money, Long, Mean

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
Jane Taylor

Mind, Thinking, Few

I am very concerned that we have given up capabilities and methodologies that have worked in the past. I know they work and I'm concerned because in the future we may need these. So while it is the prerogative of the president to make that decision, I am concerned that in the future we may miss these and we may need them to protect American lives.
Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

Work, Future, Past

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
Felix Bloch

Free, Youth, Treasure

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
John James Ingalls

Men, Democracy, Dead

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
John James Ingalls

Nor, Neither, Grave

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