Mainly Quotes

555 Mainly quotes by 466 unique authors

It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives. — Bruno Frey
The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of… — Sylvia Pankhurst
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so… — Agnes de Mille
Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations ofÂ 'destruction' and 'waste'.Â Tuberculosis was known as 'consumption', that… — Petr Skrabanek
It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind… — Jack Osbourne
If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands… — Arthur E Waite
I was taught never to make a threat unless you are prepared to carry it out, and I am not a fan of carrying anything.… — David Thorne
Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy. — Theodor Adorno
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of… — Alexander Fraser Tytler
Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize… — James H. Cone
However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good… — Oliver Heaviside
The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who… — Pentti Linkola
Mainly, my job is to be on the outside and bring ideas into the company and forge change. Most people hate changeâ€”itâ€™s threatening. I thrive… — Yvon Chouinard
I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy. — Kim Dae-jung
I've turned down a lot of proposed scripts for Scrubs episodes, mainly ones with AIDs patients. It sickens me, really. If you don't want AIDs,… — Zach Braff
Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls. — Pope Pius XII
A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half… — Eric Schlosser
The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This… — Gro Harlem Brundtland
It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio,… — Satyajit Ray

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