Principal Quotes - page 3

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. (Kurt Vonnegut)
Since reasoning, or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words, and in complicated cases can take place in no other way: those who have not a thorough insight into both the signification and purpose of words, will be under chances, amounting almost to certainty, of reasoning or inferring incorrectly. View quote
John Stuart Mill
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. View quote
George Mason
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. View quote
Arthur Koestler
There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principal. View quote
Joseph Conrad
As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
When a man says that he approves something in principal, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it in practice. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square. View quote
Luca Pacioli
The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade. View quote
Adam Smith
The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism. View quote
Paul A. Baran
History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees. (Norman Davies)
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. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
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. View quote
Rick Riordan
I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded. View quote
Suze Orman
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book. View quote
Howard Gardner
Total evil. dang, his principal had been right all along... he really was demonspawn. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being. View quote
Alfred Doblin
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. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
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. View quote
Julien Green
Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. View quote
Michel Legrand
The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack. (Robert Mueller)
The 19 hijackers that came over here to commit the attack on Sept. 11, there were those that were at the bottom of the line. There were those who were the principal conspirators. There were those who were the pilot. Everybody has a role. View quote
Robert Mueller
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. View quote
Patricia C. Wrede
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. View quote
Pete Townshend
It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require. View quote
Dee Hock