Top 336 Prominent Quotes & Sayings

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.

I wanted to be a prominent actress and for that I really worked hard.

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place

Befikre' is not just about two characters. There is another very prominent third character, and that is Paris.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

Global warming is the most prominent form of mass hysteria raging across the world today.

When Ellen came out on national television, it was the first time I'd ever seen an LGBT woman represented in such a prominent way.

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place.

As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

I have a prominent platform and I want to use it to promote respect for human rights, democracy, and personal freedom. For me, this is bigger than basketball.

Of course, I'm all for women getting to play prominent parts.

The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life.

Many of China's major public initiatives and prominent companies offer only a layer of camouflage to the activities of the Chinese Communist Party.

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

If the U.S. wants to destroy ISIS, it can destroy ISIS. We won't end terrorism around the world. But we can destroy ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Prominent generals are telling us that. Prominent national-security strategists are telling us that. So let's do it.

Those who are self-righteous are not prominent.

In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.

F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.

The lead singer is such a prominent thing, where drums are more of a supporting instrument.

I think in my time in AEW, I haven't been put in a very prominent position.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

In sport, Americans are prominent in the Premier League - both on and off the pitch.

The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths.

Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings.

For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.

I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures.

I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars.

What we need to focus on is not that we're not nominated, but that we have many more Latinos that are in prominent positions on shows all across the dial than ever before.

I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail.

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.

I have been looking for a name for years and of course it sounds like it would be easy. Americana came along for the same reason. But to me Americana means Original music with prominent folk/rock influence. Ameripolitan is Original music with prominent roots influence.

I remember a prominent conservative media figure, talking to him about prominent liberal media figures that he knew, that he liked. And I questioned him. "How can you trust these people? I mean, these are..." "No, no! They're good guys. In fact, one of them likes you, says you're not a hater." And I was supposed to be thrilled to hear this!I was supposed to be mollified that some liberal media figure had just pronounced I was okay because, after he had listened to me, he had determined I wasn't a hater. I did not take that as a compliment, and I got kind of mad.

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.

The #metoo campaign opened a particular window into the gender dynamics in technology, with many prominent women speaking out.

The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

My job in the Tour is to get the sponsor's logo in the most prominent place.

Hypocrisy, something Jesus railed against, has become perhaps the most prominent feature of the religious right in the Trump era.

I've always been charmed by houses, and descriptions of them are prominent in my novels. So prominent, in fact, that my editor once pointed out to me that all of my early novels had houses on the covers.

Bayern has always played a prominent role in my dreams.

Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics.

Creative destruction is an increasingly prominent feature of modern medical practice.

A prominent mention in The Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago garnered me a whopping 40 visitors.