Precedent Quotes

It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.

The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

... every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

Precedents once established are so much positive power.

I would rather create a precedent than find one.

We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it.

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

Don’t let the urgent take precedent over the important.

It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are.

Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.

Unprecedented amnesty in history of Georgia took place

Precedent goes in support of justice.

No crime has been without a precedent.

If settled means that it cant be re-examined, thats one thing. If settled means that it is a precedent that is entitled to respect then it is a precedent that is protected.