The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
‐‐ Ashley Montagu
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
‐‐ Saint Ignatius
The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.
‐‐ John Irving
The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
‐‐ Bayard Rustin
The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.
‐‐ Mark Zandi
The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.
‐‐ Giorgio Napolitano
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.
‐‐ Jim Sensenbrenner
The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.
‐‐ Neal Boortz
The principal reason for the universe's poker face is that its constituents are far away. Stars careen through space, and galaxies spin at speeds thousands of times faster than a jet plane. But given their distance, you'd need the patience of Job to notice much change in their appearance or position.
‐‐ Seth Shostak
The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means... Its effectiveness depends on distinctiveness, visibility, adaptability, memorability, universality, and timelessness.
‐‐ Paul Rand
The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world.
‐‐ John Sununu
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
‐‐ Jean Racine
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.
‐‐ Franz Liszt
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
‐‐ Leo Kottke
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
‐‐ Jean Piaget
The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.
‐‐ Dan Webster
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
‐‐ Arthur Koestler
The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech.
‐‐ Judith Butler
The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.
‐‐ Richard Eyre
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
‐‐ John Ruskin
The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
‐‐ Jerzy Kosinski
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
‐‐ Jeremy Bentham
The principle of building an economy without foreign monopoly capital has become a principle which, for us, is no longer subject to amendment.
‐‐ Sukarno
The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.
‐‐ N. R. Narayana Murthy
The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
‐‐ Herbert Read
The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
‐‐ Lajos Kossuth
The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after rumors spread that its founder, Joseph Smith, had taken up the practice of polygamy. While denying the charge in public, by 1843 Smith had shared a revelation with his closest disciples.
‐‐ Scott Anderson
The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
‐‐ Omar Bongo
The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
‐‐ Susan B. Anthony
The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
‐‐ Aaron Allston
The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.
‐‐ Catharine Beecher
The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
‐‐ Germaine Greer
The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
‐‐ Venus Williams
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
‐‐ Igor Stravinsky
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
‐‐ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The principle part of faith is patience.
‐‐ George MacDonald
The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be true that it's easier for the central bank to guard its independence from political pressure when it mainly holds government securities.
‐‐ Janet Yellen
The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.
‐‐ Robert Rainy
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky
The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.
‐‐ Alan Davies
The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
‐‐ Floyd Abrams
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
‐‐ Joseph Butler
The principles and doctrines of the priesthood are sublime and supernal. The more we study the doctrine and potential and apply the practical purpose of the priesthood, the more our souls will be expanded and our understanding enlarged, and we will see what the Lord has in store for us.
‐‐ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.
‐‐ Robert Toombs
The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.
‐‐ Frank Luntz
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
‐‐ Edward Gibbon
The principles of comedy are the principles of comedy. I can hear funny.
‐‐ Stephan Pastis
The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive developments in their market.
‐‐ Clayton Christensen
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
‐‐ John Rawls