Mainly Quotes

555 Mainly quotes by 466 unique authors

If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly on interest income.… — Marc Reisner
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration. — Roald Dahl
If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and lifeâ€™s inevitable difficulties disturb you less. — Dalai Lama
The adult May fly lives only a few hours, just long enough to mate. He has neither mouth nor stomach, but needs neither since he… — Sheldon B. Kopp
I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money. — Juan Gabriel
If you got the job in the first place mainly because you look nice, I can't see why you should keep it when you don't. — Michael Buerk
I work extremely hard doing what I love, mainly to ensure that I don't have to work extremely hard doing what I hate. — Hugh Jackman
There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort — Dalai Lama
Happiness mainly depends on man's ability to work and the way in which he does it. — Richard L. Evans
Since we tend to see ourselves primarily in the light of our intentions, which are invisible to others, while we see others mainly in the… — John G. Bennett
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his… — Jonathan Lethem
I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been… — Fred Saberhagen
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books. — Beverly Cleary
Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes. — Dalai Lama
The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. — Henry David Thoreau
The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth,… — Toshihiko Fukui
The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The… — Dalai Lama
What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols. — Anatole France
The design of the gum is expressed in the flow of it trunk and limbs, and the design of the European tree mainly in its… — Hans Heysen
Never mind what the 'people' think of you! They may overestimate or underestimate you! Until they discover your real worth, your success depends mainly upon… — William J. H. Boetcker

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