Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed. — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own. — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely… — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack:… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Prevailing prayer is prayer that pushes right through all difficulties and obstacles, drives back all the opposing forces of Satan, and secures… — Wesley L Duewel Copy Share Image
Whoever considers the number of absurd and ridiculous oaths necessary to be taken at present in most countries, on being admitted into… — Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal Copy Share Image
One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. The optimist has won half the battle, the… — Thomas Buckner Copy Share Image
One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking),… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants...… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down… — John Green Copy Share Image
Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith. Item by item he… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
The effect of the corporation, under the prevailing policy of the free, go-as-you-please method of organization and management, has been to drive… — Peter S. Grosscup Copy Share Image
Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We desire peace. However, if imperialism insists on fighting a war, we will have no alternative but to take the firm resolution… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government;… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
The saffron rule is prevailing in 22 States in India and we will strive to bring saffron rule in Tamil Nadu also. — Tamilisai Soundararajan Copy Share Image
It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them. — Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Copy Share Image
The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong. — George Soros Copy Share Image
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Women compete, compare, undermine, and undercut one another - at least, that is the prevailing notion of how we interact. — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image