Primary Quotes

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company. (Seneca)

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

James Baldwin

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, Sir, was then the primary object.

Patrick Henry

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

Steve Jobs

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

Emanuel Swedenborg

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

George Washington

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

Peter F. Hamilton

I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field.

Carroll Quigley

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Sigmund Freud

If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have. (Ben Goldacre)

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

Kevin Mitnick

I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.

Leon Panetta

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Denis Waitley

If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.

Greg Ginn

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.

Lord Mountbatten

I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

Martin Yan

Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life.

Rachel Carson

To live among friends is the primary essential of happiness.

William Thomson

The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system-and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny. (Ayn Rand)

The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory; and in contemplating the cause of the present embarrassments, or the future dangers of the United States, the observer is invariably led to this as a primary fact.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are secondary.

Herbert Spencer

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

Alexander Calder

This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and color. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and color, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary color.

Piet Mondrian

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