Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. — Washington Gladden Copy Share Image
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign,… — Ed Case Copy Share Image
We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
It is not that God is stingy and must be coaxed, for He "giveth liberally and upbraideth not." It is that we… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
While you live your life aboard the ship of life be aware of the sea of life on which it floats and… — Ian Gardner Copy Share Image
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
In order to judge of the inside of others, study your own; for men in general are very much alike; and though… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to under-stand others and… — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
Today, even amongst Christians, there can be found much of that spirit that wants to give as little as possible to the… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
If Broadway no longer seems behind the times or ahead of the times, it may be because there are no 'times' anymore,… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
