“O principal é evtar a mentira, qualquer mentira, sobretudo a mentira a si mesma.” — Fiodor Dostoiévski Copy Share Image
To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my… — Kevin Shelley Copy Share Image
My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
It's all so surreal, and I'm living my dream. And you know, principal or not, I'm getting to dance all the roles… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of… — E. O. Wilson 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
There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and… — Kevin James Copy Share Image
I am well pleased with what I hear of you: The principal Satisfaction I can expect in Life, in future will be… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
It was suicide, wasn't it?" "In an involuntary sort of way," said Vorob'yev. "These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I… — Lakshmi Mittal Copy Share Image
I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in… — Henry D. Taylor Copy Share Image
The Commission endorses prevention as the principal strategy to use in deterring illegal entries. We applaud the efforts of innovative Border Patrol… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
We're all a bunch of badminton birdies who just got batted from the Republican side of the court to the Democrat side.… — L. Neil Smith 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
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