Prominent Quotes

143 quotes by 136 authors

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people. — George Ade
I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them. — Mayim Bialik
I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. — George Cayley
On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific… — David Lack
There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they… — Booker T. Washington
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with… — Max Beerbohm
It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything… — Charles Darwin
This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above all accompanies and permeates the… — Pope John Paul II
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of… — Adolphe Quetelet
We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware. — Arthur Helps
Many prominent scientists - including Darwin, Einstein, and Planck - have considered the concept of God very seriously. What are your thoughts on the concept… — Christian B. Anfinsen
When you are soul-centered, you can focus your attention where and when you want to, easily, without distraction. You know to look for what you… — Sarah MacLean
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that much… — Toby Lester
Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as the… — Achille Mbembe
According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their… — Samuel Hopkins Adams
In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists… — James Clerk Maxwell
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost… — Mark Twain
It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization… — John Mott
So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded… — Will Durant
A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where… — Wilhelm II

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