Principal Quotations

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.

If there is such a thing as 'a Cukor style,' I guess it arises out of two principal factors: my own personalized perception of the world and my ability to deal professionally with actors. As far as perception is concerned, I always try to imagine settings through the best possible eyes.

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before.

Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.

I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.

We need to make Net Neutrality the law. We need to elect a Congress that will make it a priority to keep this important principal intact - and insure equal and open access to the Internet for all.

During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.

My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, who taught my mum, who, in turn, was my first teacher. Later I would travel almost 70 kms to the nearest town, Kota, to learn music from my guru Mahesh Sharmaji, who was also the principal of the music college there.

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.

I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.

The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.

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.

When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.

One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.

The prominence given to our nation as a rainbow country has its genesis and credence in our 'Calaloo culture' of which our East Indian brothers and sisters have played a principal part.

You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is.

'Unexpected Legacy' reports the findings of the California Children of Divorce Study, which began in 1971, a year after the nation's first no-fault divorce law was imposed in California. Wallerstein was the principal investigator on the study.

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.

Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side.

Right now we're on the President Obama plan, and we'll stay with that. And from my perspective, the reason we're there is to make sure that we can achieve the principal goal which is ensure that Afghanistan can never become a safe haven for a terrorist organization like al Qaeda.

I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women

The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.

No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.

Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural capital as a marginal contributor. The exclusion of natural capital from balance sheets was an understandable omission. There was so much of it, it didn't seem worth counting.

The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom.

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.

I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole.

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

I'd like this to become my principal activity: to make films about animals. Of course it's always interesting to model, but it depends who you are working with. I will continue to make acting, too, but I'm old - I'm getting tired of it.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.

One of the principal differences between the work that I have done at other places, either as a guest conductor or as a music director, and that of St. Louis is that I feel the biggest potential we have here is that we play the music with the type of emotional understanding that few other orchestras match. So while we're trying to come as close to technical perfection as human beings can, what we're really working on is trying to get the raison d'etre , the reason for being, of that music.

We can no longer rely on the federal government to be our principal source of information, ... The federal government on that day gave almost no information.

My father was a vaudevillian, and my mother was principal boy in pantomime among other things such as light musical comedy.

My great and principal crime is my long continuance in office; or, in other words, the long exclusion of those who now complain against me.

No one wants gangs in the schools. Our teachers have gone through training (to recognize signs of gang activity) and our principal stays ahead of the game on that issue.

Now the Defense Office will work to secure defense lawyers for him. He filed a declaration of means and, based on that, the Principal Defender has concluded that he is partially indigent.

No principal is so noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.

If the school principal is strong, motivated and a good manager who clearly outlines expectations for staff and students, then the school tends to make progress.

If we do buy the Japan recovery story, then there is probably more buying to be done and that is still the principal flow that will support the yen.

Leadership at the building level is critical for pulling the team together. The principal pulls the team together and implements the positions of the school.

The plans are quite different. They're different in how much of the surplus they would use. They're different in where those surplus dollars would go. They're different in which groups of the population would get the principal benefits.

We're looking at a very small group of men and women, particularly focusing on one character. There are a couple of ships, including a principal ship, but this is not a traditional captain and crew of a starship story in the least.

Mr. Rios used taxpayer-funded school equipment to copy and distribute to children an offensive statement. The principal exercised his authority to remove Mr. Rios as junior varsity baseball coach, and it certainly was an appropriate decision.

Mr Romanov has already done a huge amount for the club as the principal shareholder. How much more can he do as the owner?

She loved to shoot the free throws. A lot of times opponents would foul trying to keep the ball out of her hands. As my principal (Todd Hall) said at the banquet she was just a free-throw shooting machine.

She is the principal figure to date to be sentenced by the tribunal, and when you add the confession of guilt it makes for a significant milestone in the work of the tribunal.

Sharon's Management has helped take our market research and analysis practice to a national level. We're excited to have her as a Principal in our firm.

She was visiting family back in that area and she stopped in to see the principal ? it's the same principal that was there when she was there. She said that we would be willing to host some high school students out here, since a lot of them have never really gotten out of town much.

The principal advantage of a democracy, is a general elevation in the character of the people

The principal artists' rooms are so big that in New York 12 people would be living in them,

The principal conclusion is that we expect profit growth to continue through our new forecast horizon,

The principal difference you're going to see is we've been focused on stabilizing the customer base as well as really driving into the R&D to make sure we have the innovations that allow us to grow. My team is going to be a little more focused on growing the business.

The principal 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; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.

The principal has the ultimate authority for a school-sponsored event.

The principal impact we've had so far is to reduce their ability to sustain themselves, to reduce their supplies. We are now beginning to focus more on the troops on the ground. That began last night with sustained attacks on their staging areas.

The principal motivation was to find a way to deal with all the beetle-kill trees and reduce fuel-loading in the forest. Our study showed it looked feasible from a technical as well as an economic viewpoint.

The principal of PS 58 has been reassigned pending an investigation into a possible breach of the English Language Arts exam at the school. If the investigation finds the test was compromised, the results will be invalidated by the state Education Department.

The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.

The principal problem that universities face is money, ... This is expensive technology to deploy.

The principal reason for Citigroup's shortfall versus consensus was the 10 cents of charges related to Latin America, which were expected. The order of magnitude was harder to ascertain but the fact that they were going to have to take additional charges was expected.

The principal reason is to tell them about our concern about some of the activities in Iraq, ... We feel it is very important to address some of these issues, like border security and so on.

The principal reason we didn't lose out to China as everyone had predicted is because labor in Bangladesh is cheaper than anywhere else in the world.

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The principal strategy of all these actors, both state actors and proxy militias, is to displace people in order to undermine the support base of your opponent.

From a local government standpoint, the cost of services is the principal issue. On a statewide basis, 35-acre tracts generate more costs than revenue.

I feel responsible. What could I have done? There's plenty I could have done. I have to ask myself, maybe, if I'm not fit to be principal owner of the Boston Red Sox.

Business investment is going to be one of the principal drivers of growth in 2006. The consumer will still be there ... (but) certainly won't be as ebullient as the last four years.

China will emerge as one of the principal partners of South Africa...and we agreed that given the scope and depth of relations that will develop, we will establish a joint commission to incorporate all of these elements,

Here it was basically a smooth transition, despite the problems that were encountered in a lot of areas, ... Mr. Essic Williams came over as assistant principal and became a big influence on my life. He played a big role in helping the transition to go smoothly.

Huge efforts were exerted, and principal issues have been settled, but this crucial project needs closer examination, and therefore, more time,

He could be a principal anywhere in the system, but he chooses not to. He's happy where he is. He's found his niche, and that's how he's going to contribute back to Erwin, where he's been his whole career.

I always say it's a team sport, not an individual sport. You try to get better, not only for yourself, but the principal goal is to get better to be able to help your team. I'm really happy because that's what I found when I came here.

He was the kind of principal who always knew your name. He was always willing to do more than just teach.

Unless we constantly replenish our supply of calcium, drop by drop, our bones become thinner from depleting our calcium savings account. It's like living off your principal instead of your interest. It's not smart, and it puts you at risk for osteoporosis.

He's almost a principal ... not a staff guy,

My principal concern is sanitation. The weather has been very hot today.... Deep-trench latrines need replacing, and we need people in here to help us,

My principal contribution to the Black-Scholes option-pricing theory was to show that the dynamic trading strategy prescribed by Black and Scholes to offset the risk exposure of an option would provide a perfect hedge in the limit of continuous trading.

My principal creative pursuit is so solitary, that to be my age and have a legitimate second career in a collaborative environment is a gratification I never expected,

My principal objective right now is to learn as much as I can. This is their day to ask me questions,

My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.

I went and saw the principal and asked if I could run a donation center here, ... And on her own, Kim asked the same thing about an hour later.

My husband (TC Central principal Mike Murray) had homecoming and then the kids made regionals and there I was.

Mary taught third grade when I was principal at O.C. Johnson. She was there before me, 1972-80, and after. She was a good teacher, and had concern for her students. She was well respected.

IRRELIGION, n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.

I will not call the principal 'spud head'

Our inability to reach an acceptable solution, combined with our concern over the litigation with our principal customer, necessitates this decision.

I think that Merkel has solved the principal unsolvable problems inside her own party. The problem for her now is the Social Democrats.

Our principal drive is not to negotiate with hostage-takers and not to negotiate with terrorists, and this is where we find our strength is.

Our principal focus is trying to get a holiday. Every little bit helps. It's $600 million more than we've got today.

Our principal goal is restitution to the consumer,