Prudential Quotes

#1. Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.

Alan Dershowitz

#2. There is an ever-widening gap between what science allows and what we should actually do. There are many doors science can open that should be kept closed, on prudential or ethical grounds.

Martin Rees

#3. I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.

Jack Benny

#4. For seven years after college, I was a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley, and from there I got a job at Merrill Lynch as an account executive, from where I went to vice president of investments for Prudential-Bache Securities. I started my own firm in 1987.

Suze Orman

#5. Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.

Ziauddin Sardar

#6. Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.

Charles Caleb Colton

#7. I'm sick of always doing the professional thing for prudential reasons.' I

Ross Macdonald

#8. Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

Lee Strasberg

#9. A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Orison Swett Marden

#10. Christians obscured the good news by their efforts to restore morality to the broader culture?

Philip Yancey

#11. I'm the man of the house, the husband-fuck it- I'm the king, and I had to make my queen happy.

Skyla Madi

#12. Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Brene Brown

#13. I regret that I've been so busy with clinical work that I haven't been able to spend much time on experiments and outcome studies.

Albert Ellis

#14. One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

Novalis

#15. I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.

Iris Murdoch

#16. A topic is not interesting enough until it is multi layered. There is no vigor in a motive without many layers. One also learns quite a lot when one has been working on a difficult painting. That is my feeling. I believe that.

Odd Nerdrum

#17. Seek first the Kingdom of God: that is, the first order of business is to transform one's own inner life, not the accumulation of external trappings of speculative knowledge.

John D. Caputo

#18. If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me ...

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#19. There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.

Leland Ryken

#20. If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company.

Saul Perlmutter

#21. Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.

Brene Brown