Prominence Quotes
45 quotes by 43 authors
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The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a…
— James Buchan
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to prominence with the…
— Mary Fulbrook
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In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife…
— Maya Angelou
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Populists believe in conspiracies, and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their minions, control the…
— David Rockefeller
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Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is why…
— Irene Khan
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It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a…
— Christine Baranski
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Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during…
— Aaron T. Beck
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Therefore if we realize that our nature and destiny are what they should be, we will have no anxiety and will be at ease with…
— Guo Xiang
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Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.
— Daniel Goleman
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It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture. Any list of the most…
— Michael Medved
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O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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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
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I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars, but the individual people whose lives I've touched. I think that's…
— Clayton Christensen
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President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it.
— Kevin Madden
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I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a…
— Erma Bombeck
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Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.
— Clayton Christensen
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To preach the gospel is to stae every doctrine contained in God's word, and to give every truth its proper prominence.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Catholics are frequently criticised because of the prominence and respect given to the Virgin Mary while simultaneously condemned for not giving enough prominence and respect…
— Michael Coren
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The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven,…
— Galileo Galilei
Who Wrote These Prominence Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 45 Prominence Quotes, led by these top contributors: