Sentence examples for opening dictum from inspiring English sources

To return to the opening dictum of De Civili Dominio, if natural dominium is free from private property ownership, how can civil dominium rely upon it in any way?

The letter had been spearheaded by the authors Teju Cole and Francine Prose, who both teach at my former alma mater of Bard College, a place which, at least when I went there, adhered to the rather more open dictum of Walt Whitman which called on artists to unscrew the locks from the doors, unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs.

We cling to the dictum voiced by W. H. Auden, that suffering "takes place / While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along".

At last their batsmen seemed to have learned that the familiar dictums about how to play here are well-worn for a reason and that the best thing to do when opening the batting in the morning is to try to see off the new ball.

The earlier "Complete Poems" opened with a striking authorial dictum: "Omissions are not accidents".

And the style of the Iranian diplomacy, not least the revelation last week that it was also in part the result of a secret line of communication between Washington and Tehran opened in August, confirms Geoffrey Howe's dictum, aimed at Margaret Thatcher in 1985, that "megaphone diplomacy leads only to a dialogue of the deaf".

Herzog said: "The ecstasy of solitude!" Holdengräber reminded him of the dictum, attributed to Blaise Pascal, that opens Lessons of Darkness, Herzog's 1992 documentary: "The collapse of the stellar universe will occur – like creation – in grandiose splendour".

She was impressed by this dictum, to the point that she opened her capacious handbag, took out her pen along with the notebook she kept for such purposes and wrote it down.

He opens his new book quoting the Duke of Marlborough's dictum: "No war can be conducted successfully without early and good intelligence".

They should strive for truth, as far as it can be ascertained, bearing in mind Bertolt Brecht's dictum that "the chief aim of science is not to open a door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error".

Goldman's dictum may need a slight modification: Nobody knows anything — except how to open big.