Prevail Quotes

The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.
Boyd Rice

Truth, Either, Expense

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
James S. Coleman

Teacher, Students, Striving

The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it.
Hjalmar Branting

Social, Support, Expression

We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.
Helen Thomas

Society, Democracy, Special

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.
King George V

Country, Old, Her

I am disgusted and worn out with the system that seems to prevail.
John Buford

Seems, System, Disgusted

The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
Olympia Dukakis

Live, Trying, Find

I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.
Pras Michel

Music, Good, Firm

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.
Neil Sheehan

Success, Leadership, War

The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.
Charles Williams

History, Done, Hell

Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.
Bernard Sanders

Money, Power, Children

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.
Wayne Brady

Game, Thought, Sense

No one in this body wants to see terrorism and the rule of force prevail in Iraq. Some on the other side say otherwise, but I believe they know better.
Raul Grijalva

Body, Wants, Terrorism

Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
Jack Reed

Ourselves, Military, Neither

These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back.
Cedric Richmond

Faith, Knowledge, Past

Truth is mighty and will prevail.
Thomas Brooks

For great is truth, and shall prevail.
Thomas Brooks

Great, Truth, Shall

You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'
Jonathan Cain

Music, Happy, Forward

I think I have made an impact in the workplace and I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end.
Paula Jones

End, Impact, Workplace

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.
Joseph Cannon

Last, Sound, Judgment

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.
Lord John Russell

Impossible, Nation, Against

I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned.
Clayton Moore

History, Fight, Justice

I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do.
Susan Smith

Truth, Knew, Scared

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