Prime Quotes

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

I don't care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.

I'm a big fan of Israel and frankly a strong prime minister is a strong Israel

John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He's at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the guy did no thinking.

Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!

Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did.

Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.

My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.

The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.

Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything?

The Japanese Prime Minister has apologized for Japan's part in World War II. However, he still hasn't mentioned anything about karaoke.

Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is a prime reason why many do not know God's will.

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.

Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers.

In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan. Of course, he would be only 12 years old.

I don't consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow I'd be 52 by the time it was 10. I'm not sure I'd have the energy, and I find that quite scary.

By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.

Why add prime numbers? Prime numbers are made to be multiplied, not added.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?

In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.

I hope that being in places from the [Shinzo Abe] Prime Minister's past will motivate us to have a sincere, very practical and, I hope, productive conversation.

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.

Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to neither the electorate nor the civil service chiefs.

In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid.

I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.

The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.

I, Galileo, son of the late Vicenzo Galilei, swear that I never said that the prime numbers are useless. What I said was that you cannot count lunar craters by counting 2, 3, 5, 7.

He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister.

I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.

So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.

The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

The idea of Jewish settlements under Palestinian sovereignty, as was suggested by someone in the Prime Minister's office, is very dangerous and reflects an irrationality of values.

In the last five years I used to go to Zen practice once a month, but since I assumed the post of prime minister it's been much harder.

On human levels of consciousness one may emphasize getting and having as the prime goals, in spiritual consciousness he seeks the way of giving and being.

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.