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Tag Name "Prevalent" (63)

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My parents had a certain resolve to them that I don’t see as so prevalent today. Through good times and bad, they were committed to one another. Their relationship wasn’t something to be constantly examined or picked apart.
Steve Carell
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A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.
Frederick Scott Oliver
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There's this bubblegum pop thing which is prevalent now that we haven't had before. People's ears are slightly de-tuned they've been exposed to this weird synthetic, implausibly upbeat, Mickey Mouse stuff which I think is just weird it's not really a human sound.
Teddy Thompson
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I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?
J. K. Rowling
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There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent...It is clear that there are overwhelming ethical, financial, and religious reasons to abolish the death penalty.
Jimmy Carter
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But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem yet this will prayer.
John Milton
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Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.
Adoniram Judson
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You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!
Joyce Meyer
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
Alexander Pope
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There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.
Kevin DeYoung
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As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.
Allyson Schwartz
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Negative thinking is prevalent, in particular, among so many women in their later years, and, as a result, they live out their lives in discontent.
Louise Hay
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I think that love is just as important and prevalent and real as it ever was.
Andrew VanWyngarden
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There's no reason the story of Christianity wouldn't be more prevalent in film and television considering the audience size who love and believe the stories. This is a broad audience and deserves to be on broadcast TV.
Mark Burnett
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Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they've been really good fun.
Benedict Cumberbatch
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Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis.
Thomas Kuhn
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The racist rhetoric that extends all the way to the top of the AfD shows that one must assume that an attitude is prevalent - not just in the grassroots, but also among party leadership - that is not consistent with the basic values reflected in our constitution.
Martin Schulz
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I have an appreciation for what some people would call bad acting, but which I think can be much more real than the overly emotive, technical and supposedly realistic acting that is so prevalent in mainstream cinema.
Bruce LaBruce
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The dullest observer must be sensible of the order and serenity prevalent in those households where the occasional exercise of a beautiful form of worship in the morning gives, as it were, the keynote to every temper for the day, and attunes every spirit to harmony.
Washington Irving
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In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in drug arrests was for marijuana possession, a drug less harmful than alcohol or tobacco and at least, if not more, prevalent in middle class white neighborhoods and college campuses as it is in the 'hood.
Michelle Alexander
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This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.
Chris Wedge
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A certain joyful, though humble, confidence becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. It is due to Him when we pray in His name it should be without wavering. Remember His merits, and how prevalent they must be. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace.
Nehemiah Adams
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I think having a term for a condition that is prevalent is useful, because then people understand it as something not particular to them. It allows you not to ask the question, What's wrong with me? and begin to ask the question, What's wrong with this place that I'm in?
Claudia Rankine
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If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.
R. D. Laing
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