Primary Quotes

959 Primary quotes by 761 unique authors

I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well. — Kenneth Lay
If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates… — Christian Louboutin
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. — Maxwell Maltz
The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches… — Jenny McCarthy
Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these… — Josh McDowell
Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to… — Michael Moore
Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed. — Viggo Mortensen
In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani. — Conan O'Brien
Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage… — Camille Paglia
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is… — Camille Paglia
I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world. — Leon Panetta
If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can do,… — Leon Panetta
I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact. — Sean Parker
Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as… — Alexander Payne
The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be… — Eugene H. Peterson
In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the… — John Podhoretz
That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the… — John Podhoretz
By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything. — Queen Rania of Jordan
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous… — Marilynne Robinson
I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious… — Ann Romney
I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama. — Mitt Romney
A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us and we will win. — Mitt Romney
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist. — Salman Rushdie
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and… — Salman Rushdie
The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of… — Marquis de Sade

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