Top 811 Principal Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

In everything I do, my principal inspiration is the 1996 Belle & Sebastian album 'If You're Feeling Sinister.'

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service.

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.

Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

Israeli society is comprised of four principal tribes growing closer in size.

It is indeed one of the principal drawbacks of every kind of interventionism that it is so difficult to reverse the process.

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.

The basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole.

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

I was on a path. I was going to become a principal dancer. I never let my mind rest.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

It's all so surreal, and I'm living my dream. And you know, principal or not, I'm getting to dance all the roles that I've dreamed of doing.

Putting fear into people is the principal goal of terrorists, and they have been successful.

Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

My dad was a principal and coach. My sister was a superintendent of schools in West Virginia.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail.

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength.

I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole.

Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.

When your principal artists deliver convincing performances, the film's quality is elevated.

Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word

The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

We have to figure out how to deal with Iran as the principal state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.

Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as individuals, utilize our principal by-product? Our principal by-product is, of course, our leisure time. Many years of observation forces the conclusion that a man's success or failure in life is determined as much by how he acts during his leisure as by how he acts during his work hours. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how he is likely to spend the latter part of his life.

Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth.

The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge.

One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.

I don't know how good a principal I would be. I kind of like being the second.

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.

History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees.

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery