Primary Quotes

959 Primary quotes by 761 unique authors

Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies… — John Travolta
A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same… — John Burroughs
The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low… — Arthur Koestler
The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he… — Arthur Koestler
This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of… — Martin Buber
Oneness of the Divine. It may be given a thousand names such as The Primary Cause / God / Energy / I. All that is… — Sathya Sai Baba
There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream. — Louis Aragon
A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I… — Wilhelm Reich
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds. — Paul Twitchell
Downey Savings & Loan receives high ratings from its customers in California in areas related to personal service and for being customer focused. Downey customers… — Jeffery Taylor
The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The… — Ali Partovi
Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it… — Ben Okri
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my… — Vernon L. Smith
A people who`s primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time. — Steven Dietz
What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children's school reports.… — Carol J. Adams
Our fundamental sin is that we place ourselves in the position of God and divide the world between what we judge to be good and… — Gregory A. Boyd
Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness. — Robert Genn
The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all… — Lawren Harris
A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind. — Norman Vincent Peale
Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national… — Theodore Roosevelt
There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances… — Norman Vincent Peale
To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student.… — William Osler
What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is in short, the ability to hold many points of view in… — David

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