Best Overriding Quotes
51 Overriding quotes by 50 unique authors
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The libertarian must never advocate or prefer a gradual, as opposed to an immediate and rapid, approach to his goal. For by doing so, he…
— Murray Rothbard
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That's what our training is for, we practice not panicking, we practice breathing, we practice looking directly at the thing that scares us until we…
— Kristin Armstrong
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The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we…
— Richard Rohr
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The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always…
— William J. Brennan
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Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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The campaign in Iraq illustrates the continuing progress of military technology and tactics, but if there is a single overriding lesson it must be this:…
— Wesley Clark
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The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.
— Jon Postel
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Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.
— William J. Clinton
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Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics of…
— Cynthia Ozick
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Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.
— Rita Mae Brown
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The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to…
— Richard Pascale
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My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was…
— Daniel Ellsberg
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One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.
— Andrew Gross
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All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Death doesn't change anything. It just gives you a new location. The physical mind dissolves. But the overriding state of mind that you die in…
— Frederick Lenz
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Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be…
— Dale E. Turner
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Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.
— Henry Paulson
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I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.
— Peter Singer
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Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that…
— Sarah Vowell
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I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes…
— John Irving
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His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner…
— Milan Kundera
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We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from.…
— Wendell Berry
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The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having…
— Stuart Wilde
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Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.
— Willy Bogner, Jr.
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What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because…
— Michael Connelly
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