Prevail Quotes

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

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.

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

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.

Shooting a television show can be very difficult and at times can really wear on you. If you keep reminding yourself that it is a job and you show up together as a team and as a whole, you can prevail.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

The enemies of freedom will not prevail.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

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

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

It's a bummer sometimes but I always believe that great bands and great music always prevail.

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.

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

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.

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.

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

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.

But I thought love would more than prevail.

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.