Principal Quotes
Principal Quote of the day
Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.
Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.
The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word
Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.
My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
The battle against the Devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the Devil is still alive and active in the world.
... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.
An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.
Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.
The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.
The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.
Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.
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.
My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.
I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.
My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.
The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.
In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.
The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.
The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently but a minor part of the principal object.
It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves.
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
