Top 25 Supreme Quotes of 48 - Page 2

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.99, Oxford University Press on Demand

The saying of Vatican II is above all, 'Conscience is supreme.'

Dorothy Day

Vatican Ii, Supreme, Conscience

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

Annie Besant

Arbitrary, Birth, Supreme

Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.226, Jazzybee Verlag

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

Joyce Carol Oates

Solitude, Poet, Supreme

Joyce Carol Oates (1999). “Where I've Been, and where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose”, Plume Books

Smee, you are a supreme idjit." "Aye, Cap'n.

Ridley Pearson

Obedience, Caps, Supreme

Righteous willin, the only thing supreme swimmin'.

Nelly

Expression, Righteous, Supreme

These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

Mark Twain

Consumerism, Overconsumption, Supreme

Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.711, Library of America

First of all, you are not really that supreme.

Lupe Fiasco

Firsts, Supreme

"Lupe Fiasco wrote an open letter to white supremacy" by Mike Vago, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Lewis Mumford

War, Drama, Supreme

Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.309, University of Chicago Press

The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

Laozi

Taoism, Subjects, Supreme

It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.

Joseph Addison

God, Folly, Supreme

We got the Supreme Court, we pressured the Supreme Court into supporting women's rights to choose.

Jill Stein

Rights, Court, Supreme

Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Order, Visible, Supreme

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2009). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.526, The Floating Press

Our supreme governors, the mob.

Horace Walpole

Government, Governors, Supreme

Letter to Mann, 7 September 1743, in 'Letters'

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

Henry Ford

Supreme, Values

The supreme adventure is being BORN

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Adventure, Born, Supreme

Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn't have to be a member of congress. He or she can be anyone. I'm not sure if James Madison really intended that, or if the wording was accidentally imprecise, but the Constitution, as a recall, simply says that the House shall chuse a speaker.

Gene Weingarten

House, Constitution, Supreme Court

Source: live.washingtonpost.com