Pervasive Quotes

138 quotes by 128 authors

To say that it is not our fault does not relieve us of responsibility. However, we may not have polluted the air, but we need… — Beverly Daniel Tatum
The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his hand in skilled… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
Like it or not - and often we don't - power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the… — Tom Peters
Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think… — George Lakoff
If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence. — Eckhart Tolle
It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role in… — John Walford
...Force yourself to use the optimist's explanatory style: 'The situation is temporary. The effect will be limited, not pervasive. And it's due to external causes.'… — Price Pritchett
But it seems to me equally obvious that the orderliness is not all-pervasive. There are streaks of order to be found among the chaos, and… — Arthur David Ritchie
In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change in… — Douglas J. Futuyma
The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to… — Thomas Keating
Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture… — Kofi Annan
Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular… — Susan Abulhawa
At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is… — Esther Perel
Autism isn't something a person has, or a shell that a person is trapped inside. There's no normal child hidden behind the autism. Autism is… — Jim Sinclair
If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to. If you take me back to… — Lance Armstrong
In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal,… — Barbara Tuchman
I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance,… — Leonard Baskin
In the Java world, security is not viewed as an add-on a feature. It is a pervasive way of thinking. Those who forget to think… — James Gosling
To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United States,… — Patricia Hill Collins
Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its… — Terence McKenna

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