Dominant Quotes
Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.
Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.
The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.
Friday's turmoil in global markets looks set to continue to exert a dominant force on the foreign exchange markets. The usual trend when U.S. stocks fall is that the U.S. dollar suffers.
The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape.
Everyone is motivated a little or a lot to do something or nothing. Motivation is the internalized drive toward the dominant thought of the moment. By definition, motivation is "motive in action."
Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."
I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
As a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion.
You want to be as dominant as possible and you want to put some doubt in the hitters' heads. That's what I'm trying to do every single time I'm on the mound.
Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do.
Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.
I never would like to be a country that is that multicultural that, for instance, the Islamic values become more dominant. We should not do that. We should stop that.
Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow.
power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.
Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.
Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant situation all over the world.
I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist.
I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.
It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe remain hypothetical.
We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.
I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?
Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.
Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.
when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.
When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.
Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.
Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.
I think people who say radio is gone or radio is irrelevant are way off the mark. It's still by a huge degree the dominant medium. I know it's changing but radio is still incredibly important.
It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.
Lil Wayne is talented. He seems to be the dominant figure in this particular era of hip-hop. So you know, he's doing his thing.
I think Donald Trump is obviously the more colorful, the more flamboyant, the more dominant personality.
Many researchers say the dominant emotion experienced after loss is yearning or searching. And while you might feel more anger early on, it's accompanied by a whole host of other feelings.
When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.
Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.
I believe that in games, when you're talking about pitting my wits and my brain against your wits and your brain, that simplicity of the game becomes a dominant factor.