Top 276 Prevailing Quotes & Sayings

We cannot and must not sit back and let the anti-biblical world system determine the prevailing values of our day.

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

The prevailing view is that the easy way to stimulate economic growth is to have a low currency.

Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.

I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.

Legally, many contractors are required to pay a prevailing wage. However, bad actors often find ways to get around this requirement.

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best.

The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.

As a Harvard Ph.D. economist and U.C. Irvine professor, Dr. Navarro has been instrumental in challenging the prevailing Washington orthodoxy on so-called free trade.

Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.

Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around.

The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.

Women compete, compare, undermine, and undercut one another - at least, that is the prevailing notion of how we interact.

When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

If Broadway no longer seems behind the times or ahead of the times, it may be because there are no 'times' anymore, no prevailing Zeitgeist that sets the fashion, pace, and prevailing look.

Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.

Prayer is the key to unlocking God's prevailing power in your life.

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

As a sports fan, I like the one-and-done playoff setups of the NFL and NCAA, but a best-of-seven gives the favorite a much better chance of prevailing in the end.

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough, but entry point is what really matters.

Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places.

Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His people. Nehemiah wept and mourned.

Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.

If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore, according to Lord Coke, null and void.

Prevailing prayer is prayer that pushes right through all difficulties and obstacles, drives back all the opposing forces of Satan, and secures the will of God. Its purpose is to accomplish God's will on earth. Prevailing prayer is prayer that not only takes the initiative but continues on the offensive for God until spiritual victory is won.

I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

No one can escape the influence of a prevailing ideology.

The rule is not written anywhere, it's not etched in any? - ?but, I mean, that's the prevailing attitude of this entire society. Don't have an adventure.

When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.

The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility.

If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.

The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.