Top 320 Pervasive Quotes & Sayings

There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology.

Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.

My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.

Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.

Different ages have certain approaches, which may be more effective for one age and no longer effective in another age. The world that we live in now has much greater density to it; it is much more all-pervasive. And when I say "world," I include the human mind in it. The human mind has grown even since the time of the Buddha, 2,500 years ago. The human mind is more noisy and more all-pervasive, and the egos are bigger.

The cradle-to-grave welfare state diminishes individual initiative and can breed a pervasive sclerosis.

My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

On both sides of the Atlantic, politics has come to be dominated by vitriolic name-calling and pervasive dishonesty.

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive and powerful.

Antibiotics are so pervasive that they are often prescribed preemptively, as soon as patients report symptoms, before a diagnosis is made.

Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.

There's a shift to mobile apps; I'd like to see a more pervasive communications experience, and I think Skype can contribute to that.

All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.

Here we are surrounded by material that's being manufactured in unimaginable quantities worldwide and is used everywhere. I don't like it, no one likes it, and yet it's pervasive. We don't even see it.

If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?

I was born under Communism. I know what it's like to live in a system where you can't speak, you have to whisper. Where the state is so pervasive and so intrusive.

Synchronicity is choreographed by a great, pervasive intelligence that lies at the heart of nature, and is manifest in each of us through intuitive knowledge.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

We have an institutional problem with pervasive racism.

The Internet is not pervasive as it could be, or democratic.

Religion's pretty pervasive in humans. And why it's pervasive in humans is debated a lot. There are indications of things that look like religion in other animals, like chimps doing rain dances, and that sort of thing. Actually, I say that, but there's that and not much else.

This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.

The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.

Sexual harassment and gender discrimination is real, it's far more pervasive than I think people have been willing to acknowledge.

The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

You are purer than the pure. Never manifold, you are individual Consciousness. Unborn, unchanging, all-pervasive You are a mountain of joy.

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

South Carolina's lack of access to quality maternal health care is pervasive.

Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.

The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year.

The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.

Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.

Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.

Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

Innovation has to be pervasive.

Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

Our vision is for pervasive computing.

Innovation will come from an ecosystem of pervasive computing so natural and all-encompassing that it disappears into the background.

It is a vast, and pervasive, cognitive mistake to assume that people who agree with you (or disagree) do so on the same criteria that you care about.

Ultimately, I feel like there is just a pervasive evidence of God. Though I know that is maybe a controversial thing to say.

Dominance is one of the most pervasive and important behaviors among wolves in a pack.

Chemical synthesis is uniquely positioned at the heart of chemistry, the central science, and its impact on our lives and society is all pervasive.

Volunteering is so pervasive it's invisible. We take for granted all the things that have been pioneered by concerned, active volunteers.

American prejudices about Europe rarely surface in headlines, but they are real, pervasive, and ingrained.

The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world.

Not just for tissue-holding folks, the empty nest syndrome is so pervasive, it can take over the most headstrong of parents.

When I go back to America, after a few days I am once again filled with this kind of angry alienation and disgust with this thing there that America has got - you have no idea how pervasive it is there. The public relations and propaganda put out by the corporate mono-culture there is so pervasive.

Depression is incredibly pervasive and thus important to talk about.

The features that have made plastic so important in the global market are the same ones that make it such a pervasive pollutant: durability and resistance to degradation.

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.