Predominates Quotes

#1. Be thankful for the good, be patient under the evil, and presume not to enquire why the latter predominates

Charlotte Temple

#2. The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.

Cornell Capa

#3. What makes you weep, my friend? In you is all power. Summon up your all-powerful nature, O mighty one, and this whole universe will lie at your feet. It is the Self alone that predominates, and not matter.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

C. G. Jung

#5. In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.

Arthur Keith

#6. In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

William Hazlitt

#7. When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness.

Frederick Lenz

#8. In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

Juan Goytisolo

#9. If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Even today few businessmen understand that research, to be productive, has to be the "disorganizer," the creator of a different future and the enemy of today. In most industrial laboratories, "defensive research" aimed at perpetuating today, predominates.

Peter F. Drucker

#11. There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

Ovid

#13. We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mirth or passion, sentiment or reflection; whichever of these most predominates in our temper, it gives us a peculiar sympathy with the writer who resembles us.

David Hume

#14. I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle to the grave, in males and females, old and young, black and white, rich and poor, high and low, as this passion for superiority.

David McCullough

#15. All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

Tacitus

#16. If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#17. Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

Charles Caleb Colton

#18. In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character ...

Adam Smith

#19. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#20. Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence.

Dorothea Dix

#21. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets - most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates even over my despair, and will reconcile me to the most hideous aspect of death.

Edgar Allan Poe

#23. Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from ... instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible of any other government than that of force, a conclusion not founded in truth nor experience.

Thomas Jefferson

#24. A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer.

Vladimir Nabokov

#25. Our children will be raised differently, and that's alright. I sense our strength together, our support for each other's choices.
Today, I've fallen in deeper love with these people.
No matter which direction we fucking move, we'll all still be there.

Krista Ritchie

#26. What's more, any memoirs by eyewitnesses are a treasure, no matter who the eyewitness happens to be. Don't you think so?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#27. All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.

Edward Everett

#28. I can only answer for Chuck Grassley; I can't answer for anybody else.

Chuck Grassley

#29. 2 Guys in a health club, one is putting on pantyhose. "Since when do you wear pantyhose?" "Since my wife found it in the glove compartment!"

Henny Youngman

#30. Light is every bit as challenging as dark. We can discover a great deal about ourselves by looking at beauty.

Louise Penny

#31. Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.

Margaret Mead

#32. [The media] are using a national treasure
that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses.

Amy Goodman

#33. Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!

Tony Abbott

#34. International trade in chemical products is not free. . . . Joint control of the market became the general rule; free competition, the exception.

George W. Stocking

#35. I love my mom! You can too for $12!

Bob Saget