#recede

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #recede




This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.


William Robertson Smith


#been #force #forms #hypothesis #keep

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.


Bono


#africa #dignity #equality #facing #here

It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.


James Bovard


#been #being #concern #conservative #conservatives

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.


Jackson Browne


#make #much #new #preceded #something

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.


Zbigniew Brzezinski


#demonstration #dramatic #experienced #failure #history

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.


Hugh Walpole


#better #error #first #go #last

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.


James Wolcott


#every #filling #idealistic #instead #leaving

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.


Rachel Maddow


#get #give #i #i think #like

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.


Sandra Day O'Connor


#beyond #borders #country #courts #historically

Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.


Sandra Day O'Connor


#airlines #course #damage #goods #injury