Quotes of: Predominant Keyword

In all well-organised brains, the predominating idea—and there always is one—is sure to be the last thought before sleeping, and the first upon waking in the morning. Andrea had scarcely opened his eyes when his predominating idea presented itsel...

The Count of Monte Cristo

In oratory the will must predominate.

David Hare

My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

Fran Drescher

My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.

Andrew Rannells

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

Ray Kurzweil

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Mason Cooley

Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is.

Kym Whitley

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

O. Henry

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

Breyten Breytenbach

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

Ralph Allen

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Fredrik Bajer

In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature life, the reason is the predominating faculty.

Joseph P. Bradley

Misunderstanding and distrust—the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.

Carmen DeSousa

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

Jose Rizal

Muse’s creations are predominately lyrical often resulting in poetic sonnets and fairytale like art.

Earl M. Coleman

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring.

Mary Wortley Montagu

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.

Elihu Root

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

Lee H. Hamilton