Principal Quotes

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

There are four principal pathways that lead to enlightement: The yoga of love, the yoga of service, the yoga of knowledge, and the yoga of mysticism.

I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.

The organizing principal for any culture is War.

The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.

The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.

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

'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

Attention to detail is crucial in my roles as a real estate developer and principal of a lifestyle brand. Fine jewelry is especially intricate and requires a very well trained eye.

One of the principal occupations of man is to divine woman.

I just directed another picture called 'American Dream' with Nick Stahl. Just finished shooting principal photography right before I started ['Lincoln'].

Certainly the principal has to be bald. Certainly the school counselor has to be bald. And the driver's ed teacher. And maybe the wood-shop teacher. Mine was.

The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.

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

The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

You in the back," said the principal. "Don't think you can hide. Tell me. What would you like to be?" "Dangerous," said the hidden girl, without a second's hesitation.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

I don't know if people know how hard it is to get a hit or how hard it is to field a ground ball. It's an easy game in principal, but to actually execute the game it's very difficult.

Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!

Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.

The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-" "Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully.

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

In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.

It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.

In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding.

P.S. You'll have to meet with Dan's principal when you get back. He got in trouble for doing ninja moves in class. Don't worry. This happens all the time.

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

There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the royal family to take the ultimate military risks.

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.

You don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography.

Total evil. dang, his principal had been right all along... he really was demonspawn.

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.

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

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)

Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1.