John Dalberg-Acton

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

English Historian

Ayelet Zurer

I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.

Israeli Actress

Chamath Palihapitiya

Companies are transcending power now. We are becoming the eminent vehicles for change and influence, and capital structures that matter. If companies shut down, the stock market would collapse.

American Businessman

Nicolaus Copernicus

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.

Polish Scientist

Terry Pratchett

Tolkien is eminently filmable, I think. 'The Lord of the Rings' is intensely... landscaped. But 'Discworld' is about dialogue, which is one reason why it might be hard to film.

English Author

Edmund Burke

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Irish Statesman

Wilbur Smith

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

Novelist

William Godwin

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

English Writer

P. J. O'Rourke

Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

American Comedian

George Bernard Shaw

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Irish Playwright

Despite its respect-implying nature, 'eminent' doesn't always mean someone is liked or morally good.

Not Always Positive

'Eminent' often refers to fame within a specific area of expertise or profession.

Field-Specific

It frequently implies contemporary recognition rather than historical.

Contemporary Recognition

It can be used to describe physical features that are literally towering or standing out.

Physical Prominence

It can be used figuratively to imply other forms of obvious superiority or noteworthiness.

Figurative Use

It suggests a person has a prominent position within the structure of society or an organization.

Societal High Rank

Often implies that the high rank or repute was achieved through effort or accomplishment.

Earned Reputation

While often about the living, it can be used to refer to the enduring reputation of historical figures.

Historical Eminence

 an unbelievable number of really eminent and accomplished figures in the wine world were sort of drawn into the orbit of these bottles. I think they wanted to believe that the most expensive bottle of wine in the world must be the best bottle of wine in the world, must be the rarest bottle of wine in the world.

Benjamin Wallace: The...

 when she asked the question, "Why did no one tell us that the crisis was coming?" I'll never get my knighthood. I'll never get my knighthood. That's not the important point. The thing you have to remember is, these are eminent economists, some of the smartest people on the planet. Do you see the challenge?

Eddie Obeng: Smart...

 restraints I consulted an eminent law professor who was also a psychiatrist and said surely he would agree that restraints must be degrading painful and frightening he looked at me in a knowing way and said Ellen you don't really understand these people are psychotic they're different from me and you they

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 I consulted an eminent law professor who was also a psychiatrist, and said surely he would agree that restraints must be degrading, painful and frightening. He looked at me in a knowing way, and said, "Elyn, you don't really These people are psychotic. They're different from me and you.

 and we got there on foot, unassisted, unsupported, by the hardest route, 900 miles in record time, dragging more weight than anyone in history. And if we'd stopped there and flown home, which would have been the eminently sensible thing to do, then my talk would end here

Ben Saunders: To the...

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 And all over the world, eminent evolutionists are anxious to celebrate this. And what they're planning to do is to enlighten us on almost every aspect of Darwin and his life, and how he changed our thinking.

Elaine Morgan says we...

 rather than the eminently alterable result of a prior arrangement, an inherited allocation, of power. As a result of all of this creeping fatalism in public life, we here, particularly in America today,

Eric Liu: Why ordinary...

 the eminent cambridge university professor stephen hawkins wrote an accord according the strong version of the anthropic principle there are many different universes or many different

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