Overriding Quotes

51 quotes by 50 authors

Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life. — Paul Auster
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning. — Don Meyer
The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the drugs… — Ron Paul
The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere. — E. O. Wilson
In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU. — Russell Simmons
You can at least let sick people have marijuana because it's helpful. But the compassionate conservatives say, well we can't do this, we're going to… — Ron Paul
Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the… — Hal Porter
My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this. — Dalai Lama
What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on… — Brian Eno
Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion. — Andrei Tarkovsky
First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully. — John Yoo
I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist.… — Mavis Gallant
The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously. — John Stott
It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less.… — Paul Volcker
Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent.… — Tracy Chapman
The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we… — Donald Berwick
Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse. — Anthony Gregory
So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different… — Caroline Knapp

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