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Quotes About Trumps

As long as mitigating climate change trumps all other environmental concerns, no landscape on Earth is safe.
~ Jonathan Franzen
As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.
~ Geena Davis
Principles describe rights; policies describe goals. But rights are trumps. They have a 'threshold weight' against community goals. They should not be squashed by a competing community goal.
~ Raymond Wacks
Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.
~ Alexander Pope
How can I see anything but all that pain?" "You will. I promise you, you will. There will always be men with guns, Nash. There'll always be... I don't know. Ugliness? But one day you'll see how beautiful those horses are. Jesus, those crazy animals! You'll see them, the beauty of 'em will be bigger than anything awful. Beauty trumps the bad every time, Nash, I swear.
~ Deb Caletti
Biogeography typically trumps taxonomy and anticipates molecular phylogeny
~ Dennis McCarthy
My Trumps do not work here, not even the Trumps of Doom. My magic is useless to me, limited as it is by walls the color of Luke's ring. I begin to feel that I might enjoy even the escape of temporary insanity, but my reason refuses to surrender to it, there being too many puzzles to trouble me: Dan Martinez, Meg Devlin, my Lady of the Lake…Why?
~ Roger Zelazny
As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.
~ Carol Tavris
In his discussion of the trumps, Crowley goes so far as to identify three cards with the alchemical elements: the Magus is mercury, the Empress is salt, and the Emperor is sulfur.
~ Lon Milo DuQuette
Other trumps also have alchemical significance. The Art card is identified with vitriol, and the Lovers, the Hermit, Death, and the Devil all have vital roles to play in the alchemy of the tarot. There is also one more extremely important alchemical symbol we will see often when we examine the trumps. It is called the Orphic egg. "This egg represents the essence of all life that comes under the formula of male and female."74 THE
~ Lon Milo DuQuette
The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.
~ Louisa May Alcott
The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live.
~ Tom Stoppard
Democratic constitutions do allow some suspension of rights in states of emergency. Thus rights are not always trumps. But neither is necessity. Even in times of real danger, political authorities have to prove the case that abridgments of rights are justified.
~ Michael Ignatieff
Love trumps hate. Courage loves fear. Right always trumps wrong.
~ George Clooney
Love trumps hate in many ways, in every way, and you can be your authentic self. If you put your mind to it, and you put your work in, all your dreams can come true.
~ Gigi Gorgeous
Now winning is more important and it trumps the way you achieve it. Unfortunately for soccer, the style doesn't matter so much.
~ Mario Kempes
If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
~ Charles Lamb
The personality and songwriting of Holy Ghost! trumps the originality card any day.
~ Anthony Fantano
Will we be happier afterwards? Or will be have lost the freshness of those who are privileged to experience art as real life, where we enter after the trumps have been played, and we leave without knowing who's going to win or lose the game?
~ Umberto Eco
It's one of the great things about campaigns that experience trumps everything
~ Gloria Steinem
To be honest, I think NBA experience and years trumps everything else. It's unfortunate but when you come from somewhere else it's known that you don't have NBA experience and the NBA is so different to everywhere else so in that sense you need those years.
~ Patty Mills
The mutability of bacteria, coupled with their ability to pass around and share genetic trumps in a microscopic game of cards, seemed to increasingly leave Homo sapiens holding losing hands.
~ Laurie Garrett
What's great now is that I know that Jesus trumps our desires. Jesus opens up a story for us that fulfills (and exceeds) our heart's desire if we delight in him. Jesus doesn't cram us into preset molds; he molds us for God-birthed purposes.
~ Louie Giglio
love trumps fear, laughter trumps tears, and abundance trumps loss. And
~ Pam Grout