Top 811 Principal Quotes & Sayings

One of the principal occupations of man is to divine woman.

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

One of the principal factors fueling the proliferation of the abuse of secrecy and sensitive but unclassifieds is the administration's adherence to the unitary executive principal. This administration more than any of its predecessors believes that it is its responsibility to collect power onto itself in the executive office when it comes to the conduct of war, foreign policy, the management of agencies and departments, regulations, etc.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.

People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests above all others and no legal authority to serve any other interests - what has come to be known as "the best interests of the corporation" principal.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

My goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT.

If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal consumers of Viagra were poor young black men, then...selling Viagra would get you five to 10 years behind bars.

The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.

My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.

With eternal investments there is never a loss of principle or principal.

Shooting is my principal pastime.

That's the principal guiding feature of all interviews today is money.

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act - and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

The principal fact of life is the free mind.

Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1.

There's a joke about the balloon boy who has a balloon mum and a balloon dad and he goes to a balloon school with balloon friends ad a balloon principal. And one day, the balloon boy decides to take a pin to his balloon school, which is, of course, a disaster. And he's called into the balloon principal's office, and the balloon principal tells him, 'You've let me down, you've let your school down, you've let your parents down, you've let your friends down. But most importantly you've let yourself down'.

The MMI brothers, who provided security for Malcolm X had been trained by Malcolm himself that inside of the Nation of Islam, whenever there is a diversion, you protect the principal. The principal, in this case Malcolm, clearly was not protected on February 21st [1965].

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then how is it possible that no more than one in one hundred students has ever been exposed to an extended and systematic study of the art and science of question-asking? How come Alan Bloom did not mention this, or E. D. Hirsh, Jr., or so many others who have written books on how to improve our schools? Did they simply fail to notice that the principal intellectual instrument available to hu­man beings is not examined in school?

The attributes of God have been carefully explored. But the Devil's attributes have been left vague. I think I've found one of them. It is he who puts the prices on things." "Doesn't God put a price on things?" "No. One of his attributes is magnanimity. But the Devil is a setter of prices, and a usurer, as well. You buy from him at an agreed price, but the payments are all on time, and the interest is charged on the whole of the principal, right up to the last payment, however much of the principal you think you have paid off in the meantime.

Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.

Rise above principal and do what's right.

Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.

My principal focus is finding great dramas.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself.

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.

In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding.

The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its investors.

The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.

Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.

In the postwar period, Americans turned away from quality as the principal goal of manufacturing and made cost the principal goal. Japanese, restructuring their companies, made exactly the opposite decision.

Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.

The organizing principal for any culture is War.

People think I look like a P.E. teacher or the principal.

You don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography.

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

One of the principal features of my entertainment is that it contains so many things that don't have anything to do with it.

The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.

The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.

All the alleged key causes of SOE [State-Owned Enterprise] inefficiency - the principal-agent problem, the free-rider problem and the soft budget constraint - are, while real, not unique to state-owned enterprises. Large private-sector firms with dispersed ownership also suffer from the principal-agent problem and the free-rider problem. So, in these two areas, forms of ownership do matter, but the critical divide is not between state and private ownership - it is between concentrated and dispersed ownerships.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

Principal Principal: Where's your late pass, mister? Errant Student: I'm on my way to get one now. PP: But you can't be in the hall without a pass. ES: I know, I'm so upset. That's why I need to hurry, so I can get a pass. Principal Principal pauses with a look on his face like Daffy Duck's when Bugs is pulling a fast one. PP: Well, hurry up, then, and get that pass.

The alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews constitute one and the same historical lie, which made possible a gigantic financial-political fraud, the principal beneficiaries of which are the State of Israel and international Zionism, and whose principal victims are the German people - but not their leaders - and the entire Palestinian people.

Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.

The principal person in a picture is light.

The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.