Primarily Quotes

552 quotes by 469 authors

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to… — Henri Nouwen
Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition, magical… — Terri Windling
...primarily the individual is going to study at home. — R. Buckminster Fuller
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most… — Wallace Stegner
Shhh.â€ He put a finger to her lips. â€œHear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you. A… — Elizabeth Hoyt
I worry about a lot of things, but I donâ€™t worry about achievements. I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs in Heaven. — Tom Waits
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There are… — Marya Hornbacher
the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the â€œnursery,â€… — J.R.R. Tolkien
If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment. — Nhat Hanh
The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth… — Frederick Buechner
The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with… — Michelle Alexander
I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Philosophy is manâ€™s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect. — Alan Watts
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police. — Albert Einstein
I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution, is that… — Glenn T. Seaborg
Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion.… — Alwin Nikolais
A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into. — George Orwell
No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next. — Mark Twain

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