Quotes About Overriding

The fear factor is a very powerful weapon. It makes people do what they would not normally do. They would jump out from the 20th floor of a building to face certain death if the building is on fire because of the fear of getting burned alive. Both ways you die. But the fear of dying in a fire is stronger than the fear of dying from the fall. So they jump and die.Is that sensible? There is nothing sensible when it comes to fear. Fear overrides common sense.

I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.

Always that riptide compulsion dragging you down into the water, that need to know overriding the fear.

But my overriding goal all along has been a quest for truth—no matter where it may lie, and no matter what inherited dogmas may need to be abandoned in order to attain it.

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

It should be stressed here again, however, that basic trend analysis is still the overriding consideration.

His decision suggests that an absence of overriding personal ambition together with shrewd common sense are among the essential components of wisdom.

Thus, for the American Conservative, there is no difficulty in identifying the day's overriding political challenge: it is to preserve and extend freedom.

self-talk is a way to override our past negative programming by erasing or replacing it with conscious, positive new directions. Self-talk is a practical way to live our lives by active intent rather than by passive acceptance.

Those two words have echoed unceasingly in my mind ever since. In overriding matters God seems to work in themes with me.

still carry around with me a battle between working conceptually—art based on some overriding idea—and my pure carnal sensory love of materials.

We live in a squalid society. Success: this is the message seeping, drop by drop, down from the overriding corruption.

I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.

Fear overrides all rational thinking

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.