Principal Quotes

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.

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.

Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy.

I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

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

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

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.

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.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

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

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

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

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.

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

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.