137 Principal Quotes for You to Enjoy

As one of the principal responsibilities of the government is to safeguard its citizens, it is entirely reasonable that it should look at what more might be done to improve security. Dominic Grieve

Government Responsibilities Security Citizens Entirely More Look Principal Safeguard Improve Done Might Should Reasonable

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours. Douglas Hurd

Time Great Values Important Understanding Past Ours More Thus Performed Ideas Principal Judgement Because Line Than Where Reputable Actor

Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal, who was making a different movie. The Super Bowl was going to be playing at this bar at midnight, so we decided we would go watch the Super Bowl at this bar at midnight in Prague together. Edie McClurg

Time Together Once Would Super Super Bowl Bowl Principal Prague Making Go Same Going Same Time Different Movie Decided Regarding Bar Republic Midnight Who Czech Czech Republic Played Watch Playing

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages. Elie Ducommun

Politics War Character Progress Indeed Civilization Factor Through Shapes Major Principal Questions Nations Stages Successive International

My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara. Eric Stoltz

'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.' Floyd Skloot

Love War Art Love Story Hell Back Characters Student Principal Traditional Been End Timely American Story Wartime Core

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner. Frank Dobson

Death Health People Smoking Cause Worst More Sooner Leads Principal Causes Off Hits Often Being Dying Which Poorer Premature Ill Gap Now Hardest Britain

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. George Cukor

Best Eyes World Try Perception Style Own Settings Guess Out Possible Ability My Own Through Factors Arises Principal Concerned Deal Always As Far As Personalized Far Such A Thing Professionally Actor Thing Two Imagine

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. George Grey

The Iraq war was always a long shot. But it was made immeasurably longer by its principal architects in Washington, including Douglas Feith, who ignored expert advice, reserved most of their effort for fighting each other in ideological battles, and regarded the Iraqi people as an afterthought. George Packer

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Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Great Those Claim Though Rightfully Admiration Admittedly Highest Principal Privilege May Which Themselves Grounds Reasons

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good. Guy Ritchie

Good Job Films Entertaining Particular Look Principal Make Proud Just Wanted Format Which Interesting Use Film Technique

What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role. H. R. McMaster

Government You Own Security Security Forces Embrace Cases Almost Between Principal Forces Were Iraqis Role Many Found

There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville. Hernan Cortes

Church Seville Lofty Higher Main Leading Steps Tower Towers Principal Well Built Than Which Fifty Body Forty Fully Largest

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. Horace

Good Writing First Sense Parent Good Sense Both Good Writing Principal Source

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me. Hugh Laurie

Life Hope Me Goals Job Three My Life Nothing Say Embarrassing Has-Been Must Delight Most Principal Proud Least Doing Been Children Avoid Who Agreeable Now

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

Government More Recovery Driver Disaster Principal Larger Necessary

I got invited to the White House, and I tried to sleep there overnight without permission. The Secret Service came to my house, and I had to talk to them. They legally couldn't do anything because I didn't do anything wrong, but they yelled at me like a principal. Jake Paul

Service Me White White House Secret Tried Had Wrong Invited Like Talk House Principal Because Without Got Permission Overnight Came Yelled Legally Anything Them Sleep

Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth. James Randolph Adams

Man Business Earth Come Principal Advertising Inherit Reason Why

By the time I was a sophomore in high school, it had become routine for me to be sent home for wearing dresses. My mere presence in a skirt became an act of protest that would get me called out of class and into the vice principal's office. Janet Mock

Time Home Me Class School Become Out High Would Wearing High School Dresses Had Mere Sophomore Principal Became Protest Office Get Vice Sent Act Skirt Routine Presence By The Time

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. Jean-Francois Lyotard

Knowledge Decision Society Machine Giant Only Indispensable Principal Accordance Role Decide Decided Act Element

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.' Jessica Raine

Me You Once Feel Like Know Principal Doing Professional

I was the principal negotiator for the Department of Defense, when I was secretary of the Navy, on the issue of Toshiba technology concerns with American submarines. Jim Webb

Technology Defense Secretary Principal Concerns Issue American Department Navy

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school. Jonathan Brandis

School Drunk High Pretty More Small More Or Less Attended Disaster Principal Became End Very Junior Junior High Senile Children In The End Less

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