Prevailing Quotes

Yesterday was a mad rush, and today, cooler heads are prevailing a little bit. Obviously the market is extremely concerned about potential of Rita to cause damage, but she hasn't caused any yet. - Phil Flynn

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick. - Jeremy Paxman

While the fundamentals in Las Vegas still remain strong and above the prevailing negative (investor) sentiment, there are (legitimate) concerns about slowing room rate growth, escalating cost pressures and market valuations close to national peaks. - Marc Falcone

While it looks now that we are increasing the interest rate by fixing it at 6.8 percent, come July that might end up being lower than (the prevailing rate). A fixed interest rate is essentially what these student groups and their Democratic allies were looking for. - Steve Ford

When the only shot many people have is a good job rebuilding New Orleans, the president intervened to suspend prevailing wage laws so his contractor friends can cut wages for a hard day's work. - John Edwards

What's the prevailing sentiment on the global economy? Are we turning the corner? What's the extent to which we'll continue to feel repercussions from Sept. 11? Is the information technology cycle in a down phase, or is it turning around? Hearing the tenor of the discussions will be interesting. - Leal Brainerd

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. - Kerry Thornley

We're working on the forecast right now - what conditions are prevailing. - Kent Laborde

We're simply not prepared to close any doors. We are confident of prevailing with both of the suits. - Jeff Squire

We have to prove a substantial likelihood of prevailing and that irreparable harm will be suffered if the injunction is not granted, and we believe we have a strong case on both of those. - Mark Levin