All Quotes

The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.
‐‐ Lord Mountbatten

The primary factor is proportions.
‐‐ Arne Jacobsen

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
‐‐ Robert Brustein

The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.
‐‐ Theo de Raadt

The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates.
‐‐ Jason Epstein

The primary goal of the so-called nonfiction text is to relay the facts of an event - the facts about a person, the facts of history - which is not why I turned to this genre.
‐‐ John D'Agata

The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

The primary job for women in Hollywood is still super-attractive actress. That is the most high-profile women's job in Hollywood.
‐‐ Diablo Cody

The primary part of the weekend is centered around my children, and I have to be flexible. To call an audible is to be liquid enough to understand that at any given time you have to be a chauffeur or a chaperone, especially for my 12-year-old and whatever her plans are.
‐‐ Lyor Cohen

The primary problem in the psychology of becoming is to account for the transformation by which the unsocialized infant becomes an adult with structured loves, hates, loyalties, and interests, capable of taking his place in a complexly ordered society.
‐‐ Gordon W. Allport

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
‐‐ Sydney J. Harris

The primary reason that I'd be here or that Don Payne Jr. would be here is for you to know that members of Congress actually exist and are human.
‐‐ Rodney Frelinghuysen

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
‐‐ A. J. Liebling

The primary school I attended in Shanghai was a very liberal one, established by scholars who had return from an education in France. The children of leading families were enrolled there, including the son of a well-known man believed to be a top gangster of the underworld!
‐‐ Charles K. Kao

The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point - is that ours is to be a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.'
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.
‐‐ Kenneth Scott Latourette

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.
‐‐ Keith Miller

The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.
‐‐ Max Weber

The primary theory embraced by the Bush administration to justify its War on Terror policies was that the 'battlefield' is no longer confined to identifiable geographical areas, but instead, the entire globe is now one big, unlimited 'battlefield.'
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald

The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.
‐‐ Tony Kushner

The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it's a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don't count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn't make the next sentence of the next book appear.
‐‐ John Edgar Wideman

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
‐‐ George Santayana

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol

The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.
‐‐ Edith Widder

The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of plant materials, how they huddle together for protection. Some are nurse crops.
‐‐ Antoine Predock

The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
‐‐ Christiaan Barnard

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.
‐‐ Ken Hill

The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.
‐‐ Felice Picano

The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.
‐‐ Hugh Sidey

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
‐‐ Aneurin Bevan

The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.
‐‐ John Redwood

The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.
‐‐ Maurice Strong

The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.
‐‐ John Bercow

The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself.
‐‐ Charles Perrault

The prince in 'The Leopard' was a very complex character - at times autocratic, rude, strong - at times romantic, good, understanding - and sometimes even stupid, and above all, mysterious.
‐‐ Luchino Visconti

'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the 'Evil Machiavel.' The outrage has not dimmed with time.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

'The Prince' was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. 'Rules for Radicals' is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.
‐‐ Saul Alinsky

'The Princess Bride' is one of my favorite movies of all time.
‐‐ Ivana Milicevic

'The Princess Bride' was a movie that I watched all the time.
‐‐ Charlie Rowe

The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.
‐‐ Anthony Holden

The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social mobility.
‐‐ George Packer

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.
‐‐ Dominique de Villepin

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.
‐‐ Saul Griffith

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.
‐‐ Moses Mendelssohn

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.
‐‐ Michael Shermer

The principal cause of war is war itself.
‐‐ C. Wright Mills