Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.
The principal task is to put spiritual foundations under both our child's life and our own. This triggers a shift in the elemental way in which we relate to our children, with the result that their behavior automatically falls in line as they become aware of, and true to, who they really are. Behavioral changes are an outgrowth of a shift in the relationship.
In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding.
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
I wish to God that she [principal Dawn L. Hochsprung] had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out. . . and takes him out and takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids.
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.
The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.
If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the spectrum, we may suppose three distinct sensations only to be excited by the rays of the three principal pure colours, falling on any given point of the retina, the red, the green, and the violet; while the rays occupying the intermediate spaces are capable of producing mixed sensations, the yellow those which belong to the red and green, and the blue those which belong to the green and violet.
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.
The principal cause of war is war itself.
The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.
The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.
In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That's my idea.
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you. '