Primarily Quotes

552 quotes by 469 authors

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to… — Marilyn Hacker
No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I. And no doubt,… — William J. Brennan
Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget… — David Knopfler
What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the… — David Levithan
Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The truth is I don't watch a lot of news, except for when I'm here at the office watching Fox News. I get my news… — Megyn Kelly
When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when… — Will Hermes
The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit… — E. J. Dionne
Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty. — Yasunari Kawabata
Babelgum has no ties to individual content owners and distributors, and as a result our editorial strategy is primarily 'user-centric.' That strategy ensures the platform… — Silvio Scaglia
Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other… — Harry Lorayne
I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I… — Joseph Force Crater
In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and competition. The developing athletes who make… — Terry Orlick
The explanation is that prayer is not primarily God's way of getting things done. It is God's way of giving the church 'on the job… — Paul Billheimer
From heaven's standpoint, all spiritual victories are won not primarily in the pulpit, not primarily in the klieg light of publicity, nor yet through the… — Paul Billheimer
The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not created primarily for… — Tony Campolo
The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his… — Eric Hoffer
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who… — Andre Malraux
Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over… — Ayn Rand
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is… — Thomas Merton

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