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

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

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

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

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

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

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

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

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

I thought I would be a teacher; I think my eventual goal was to be the principal of my old high school.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

We're thrifty. We can live off our interest, save the principal, and let the kids go off and have a hoot.

Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.

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

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

In everything I do, my principal inspiration is the 1996 Belle & Sebastian album 'If You're Feeling Sinister.'

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

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

I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

One of the principal features of my entertainment is that it contains so many things that don't have anything to do with it.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

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

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

I love 'Bates Motel.' I'm a huge Vera Farmiga fan, and I'm a huge Freddie Highmore fan. In fact, that entire principal casting.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

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 did my schooling at Holy Angels, where they had stringent rules. I coloured my hair blond and red and was pulled up by the principal.

A principal struggle of many young companies is to establish an identity, a philosophical and emotional core, and LAIKA is no exception.

School grades can help determine how well a principal or school leader is doing, and yeah, you need to have some way to evaluate schools.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

The principal cause of suffering during humanitarian crises is insufficient respect of applicable rules of international humanitarian law.

The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world.

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.

It's all so surreal, and I'm living my dream. And you know, principal or not, I'm getting to dance all the roles that I've dreamed of doing.

Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives when I became Chairman in February 2006.

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

My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

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.

40 years old is about the time a principal dancer would start to think about retirement, but some go on to dance a little bit longer than that.

When Shonda Rhimes calls, you feel like you get called into the principal's office a little bit, and you think, 'Maybe I better take that call.'

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