Secondary Quotes

300 Secondary quotes by 271 unique authors

You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only… — Unknown Author
It can be shown that an incorporeal and reasonable being has life in itself independently of the body... then it is beyond a doubt bodies… — Origen
The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto… — Karl Barth
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function… — Walter Lippmann
Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials furnished… — John Playfair
Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle around on the… — Iron & Wine
I love it, but it's not important to me to always be thought of as sexy. I like it when it doesn't limit my career.… — Eva Mendes
The life story of the five main characters and the secondary characters around them allows Jonathan Franzen to present the full impetus and extent of… — Unknown Author
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject. — Claude Monet
Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably… — Edward Abbey
What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an… — John Hume
Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy… — John F. Kennedy
We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the… — George Balanchine
Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines… — Harry Allen Overstreet
The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him. — Erwin W. Lutzer
My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about… — Barack Obama
In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the… — Stewart Copeland

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