A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.
The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are.
I think that America is a part of the world, that we want to cooperate with the world. We are not the dominant power in the world, that everyone falls in behind us. But we want to reach out and cooperate.
I can be one of the dominant players, maybe the dominant player, in the East.
Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.
I did not write about that kind of insecurity and anxiety between myself and my brothers, because my father was the dominant male figure as I was growing up in that home.
When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
We do not control the trade of our resources, which are an important factor of prosperity for the dominant nations.
I'm still dominant and that's what matters,. . . But rain, snow, sleet, it doesn't matter. I'm going to go out and try and win a gold medal.
You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.
If you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.
I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.
The dominant expression of a child is gravity.
Look how in societies today where Islam is dominant and prominent, how any non-Islamic person, whether it's a Christian or an apostate or a woman or a critical journalist, how they are treated. This is in a very bad way, often with the death penalty or imprisonment or all those kind of terrible things.
My thing about camp is to come in and be who I am, which is the most dominant player in the game, That's who I am, and that's what I'm here for.
Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. . . . The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same conclusions as the youth. Or, since no doubt many people are quite clear about the connection that the structure of society that has becoming increasingly dominant in our country is disastrous to the growth of excellence and manliness, why don't more people speak up and say so?
It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.