Mainly Quotes

555 Mainly quotes by 466 unique authors

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. — Dave Barry
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
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. — Ambrose Bierce
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
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. — William J. H. Boetcker
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
You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men. — Jo Brand
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
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
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
I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. — Winston Churchill
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
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness. — Thomas Aquinas
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
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
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
Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. — Albert Einstein
PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull. — Ambrose Bierce
Mainly, I like to have fun. Swimming is all about having fun, and I am firm believer that you should keep swimming as long as… — Unknown Author
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly… — Mark Twain
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology... — Susan Sontag
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest. — Walter Savage Landor
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain… — Hans-Georg Gadamer

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