People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
In everything I do, my principal inspiration is the 1996 Belle & Sebastian album 'If You're Feeling Sinister.' — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is… — Pam Gems Copy Share Image
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall. — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
Whatever people are doing, they're probably going to be doing it five years from now. You have your banker, your general store… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
I would consider the principal threats to start with Russia, and it would certainly include any nations that are looking to intimidate… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry that it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share Image
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Laureate is a highly leveraged failing investment whose principal beneficiaries are Wall Street fat cats and billionaires - and William Jefferson Clinton. — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The battle against the Devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have...… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights,… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
We have to figure out how to deal with Iran as the principal state sponsor of terrorism in the world. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these… — William Henry Ashley Copy Share Image
The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and… — Patrick J. Adams Copy Share Image
There are four principal pathways that lead to enlightement: The yoga of love, the yoga of service, the yoga of knowledge, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Looking back, I was a very good kid, very studious and all. But I would always come out with a quip -… — Fred Willard Copy Share Image
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