Prevailing Quotes
154 quotes by 141 authors
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It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
— Dave Barry
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Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the…
— Alice Miller
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There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind…
— Alexander Hamilton
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We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail…
— Oswald Chambers
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The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to…
— Arthur W. Pink
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It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference.…
— John Shelby Spong
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What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
— Kerry Thornley
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Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
— George Orwell
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Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information…
— Robert Wright
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Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.
— Samuel Rogers
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All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work…
— Samuel Logan Brengle
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Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
— Washington Gladden
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I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
— Grace Paley
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Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have remained a nobody.…
— Ian Kershaw
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Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places.
— Judith Sargent Murray
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Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a significant contribution to…
— Peter Singer
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Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice…
— Pope Francis
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[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore,…
— Thomas Hutchinson
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The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those admitted to prison…
— Michelle Alexander
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