Plenipotentiary Quotes & Sayings

Love is the queen of virtues. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely. — Dorothy Day

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it. — Ambrose Bierce

Yeah, you're probably right," I admitted and slowly pulled myself out from underneath the covers.
"You know, I really wish you'd catch onto the fact that I'm always right. — Amanda Hocking

Colonial governors at their seats of government, and Ministers Plenipotentiary in their ambassadorial residences are very great persons indeed; and when met in society at home, with the stars and ribbons which are common among them now, they are less, indeed, but still something. But at the Colonial and Foreign Offices in London, among the assistant secretaries and clerks, they are hardly more than common men. All the gingerbread is gone there. His Excellency is no more than Jones, and the Representative or Alter Ego of Royalty mildly asks little favours of the junior clerks. — Anthony Trollope

People don't die so the universe can gauge your reaction. They die because life is finite. — Dan Groat

Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador. — Joseph Addison

Always think extra hard before crossing over to a bad side, if you were weak enough to cross over, you may not be strong enough to cross back! — Victoria Addino

It takes few words to tell the truth. — Chief Joseph

Miracles do not happen. — Matthew Arnold

The preacher rose high on his elbow. "Law changes," he said, "but 'got to's' go on. You got the right to do what you got to do. — John Steinbeck

Competing, to me is just a mentality that says you never back down. — Shannon Higgins-Cirovski

Of all the named structures within the abdomen and the chest, those associated with reproduction retained the mysteries of their willful behavior long after others had been solved to the satisfaction of physicians and philosophers. — Sherwin B. Nuland