Primary Quotes

959 Primary quotes by 761 unique authors

Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study. — Timothy Keller
The Founding Fathers did not believe the primary purpose of their guns was to hunt ducks, but to keep the government in line within the… — John Coleman
Religion, according to Alfred North Whitehead, is a phenomenon that begins in wonder and ends in wonder. Feelings of awe, reverence, and gratitude are primary,… — Gary A. Kowalski
One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets… — Jeremy Begbie
For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although the mandate of… — Linda McQuaig
The rise of the Net and the Web represents a victory for the counterculture and the subculture. The next generation, raised on the Net as… — R. U. Sirius
A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want. — Niklaus Wirth
The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think. — Bruce Lee
One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament. — Herbert Hoover
I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when… — Placido Domingo
While new rights are attributed to or indeed almost presumed by the individual, life is not always protected as the primary value and the primordial… — Pope Francis
Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works,… — Victor Papanek
When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working. That was my primary goal. Sure,… — Larry Ellison
Start from the body, and then go, slowly slowly, deeper. And don't start with anything else unless you have first solved the primary. If your… — Rajneesh
One of the primary reasons why people struggle financially is because they cannot control their emotion of fear. — Robert Kiyosaki
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. — A J Liebling
The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which… — Jonathan Kozol
That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must… — Vartan Gregorian
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as… — Naomi Wolf
Learn to raise capital by any means necessary. That's your primary job as an entrepreneur. You must continually raise capital from family and friends, banks,… — Richard Branson
Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in… — Aristotle
My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual. — Albert Einstein
For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his… — Mabel Elsworth Todd
It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for: to live in… — Nelson Mandela
The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity. — Fernando Pessoa

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