#prevailing

I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason. ↗

— Danny DeVito

#because #clout #doing #doing the right thing #greed

I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe. ↗

— William Lyons

#cause #center #class #consensus #considered

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. ↗

— Grace Paley

#believe #early #fads #fidelity #i

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing. ↗

— Amelia E. Barr

#despair #determination #failure #hindrances #life

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#criteria #entering #failure #implications #instances

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

— Kerry Thornley

#chaos #form #imagine #merely #order

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. ↗

— James Wolcott

#anymore #because #behind #broadway #fashion

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#almost #any #comes #conclusion #dangerous

Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth. ↗

— Albion W. Small

#analysis #attempt #century #implicit #interest

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

— John Philip Sousa

#conditions #hears #only #prevailing #production