Principal Quotes

Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.

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

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

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

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

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

Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.

The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

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

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

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

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.

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

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

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

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

Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.

I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life.

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.

So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.

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

We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

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

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

In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.

It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town.

The world of Ultimate Spider-Man is funny. I can't imagine a live-action film where he's Principal Coulson and dealing with some of the pranks from these guys.

My principal focus is finding great dramas.

Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

What I see is not what I am looking at but what I am looking with. And so my first and principal duty...is to find my eyes of love.

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

The Republican Party is the party of Eddie Haskell and the principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

So who's the big red menace nowadays? Cuba. That's it? I'm sorry, but it's hard to whip up any us against them nationalist fervor about a country whose principal export is citizens who can swim.

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.