Prima Facie Quotes

#1. A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations.

Hosea Ballou

#2. It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.

Thomas Nagel

#3. Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.

Tony Abbott

#4. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design.

Edward Robert Harrison

#5. In the era of security clearances, to be an Irish Catholic became prima facie evidence of loyalty. Harvard men were to be checked; Fordham men would do the checking.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#6. Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.

Peter Birks

#7. The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular cross burning is intended to intimidate. The First Amendment does not permit such a shortcut.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#8. A good part of what appears to us - prima facie - as objective reality is, instead, just a consequence of our conventions to discover it.

Felix Alba-Juez

#9. I think it's prima facie evidence for the existence of God because for me to grow up and actually end up working with Glen Campbell is almost unbelievable.

Jimmy Webb

#10. House of pleasure, how may I orally please you? she purred, recognizing the number.

Eve Langlais

#11. He values my understanding and talents more highly than my heart, but I am proud of the latter only. It is the sole source of everything of our strength, happiness, and misery. All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#12. Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher..

Patti Davis

#13. Our thoughts and actions have consequences, all the more reason to be loving and compassionate and not fearful or harmful. They create our destiny and our future.

Brian L. Weiss

#14. Frank Sinatra's never been handsome, but he's one of my favorite singers. Who needs looks when you have a voice and power?

Will Oldham