Principal Quotes
To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.
The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge.
To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.
What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror
Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.
As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted
The three principal trends affecting how we do business in the newspaper production industry might best come under the headings: automation, diversification, distributed print.
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.
Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.
One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.
I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women
In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
One of the principal features of my entertainment is that it contains so many things that don't have anything to do with it.
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.
Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.
When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.
A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
One of the principal qualities that you need as national security adviser is trust, the trust of the president. And that depends on truth and it depends on honesty.
Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.
Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.
Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.
That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.
And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.
I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.
Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.
