Primary Quotes

959 Primary quotes by 761 unique authors

From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony.… — Peter Straub
The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary.… — Howard Zinn
After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as… — Ysabeau S. Wilce
The look Anthony shot at his sister was so comically malevolent Simon nearly laughed. He managed to restrain himself, but mostly just because he was… — Julia Quinn
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you… — Dennis Lehane
Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with each other and… — Henri Nouwen
Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It… — Ursula K. Le Guin
...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned… — Tom Robbins
Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men — Dennis Lehane
As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical… — Jon Stewart
We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper. — Derrick Jensen
I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on… — Darin Strauss
Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God. — Ravi Zacharias
schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept… — Bell Hooks
Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. — Hillary Clinton
To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them,… — Aldous Huxley
Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
One of the primary tenets of the course was that highly successful leaders kept journals, morning and night, in order to stay tightly focused on… — Karen Marie Moning
Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid… — BrenÃ© Brown
Jesus didn't come to earth to establish a new religion. He came to restore a broken relationship. He came to make the primary, primary again.… — Charles R. Swindoll
The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of… — Francis Schaeffer
Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.… — Adrienne Rich

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