Mainly Quotes
555 quotes by 482 authors
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I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
— Dave Barry
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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the…
— Aneurin Bevan
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You…
— David Bowie
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You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.
— Jo Brand
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
— Samuel Butler
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The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The…
— Alvar Aalto
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For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly…
— Kim Campbell
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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
— Winston Churchill
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to…
— B R Ambedkar
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The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
— Thomas Aquinas
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The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.
— E. W. Howe
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People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your…
— Paul Reiser
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It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you…
— James A. Baldwin
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Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
— Albert Einstein
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PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.
— Ambrose Bierce
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