#prime

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual. ↗

— Alexander Fleming

#details #due #enterprise #first #idea

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#conviction #diagnosis #excessively #extremism #identifiable

It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#basis #bush #chinese #discovered #everybody

The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#born #british #child #cost #country

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#circuit #concerts #european #house #least

The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill. ↗

— Denis Thatcher

#churchill #conservative #conservative party #country #dismissed

My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore. ↗

— Goh Chok Tong

#been #done #going #happy #i

I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them ↗

— Mark Haddon

#prime-numbers #life

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#help others #hurt #least #life #others

Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'. ↗

— Bernard Levin

#bless #blow #british #else #even