#principal

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#beauty #building #daughter #eldest #god

We talk on principal, but act on motivation. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#motivation #principal #talk

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

#avoid #been #children #delight #doing

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

— Ignatius Loyola

#both #catholic #catholic faith #conquest #end

I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#because #been #better #blair #closely

When I first started with 'Twilight,' I didn't have any experience. I didn't know what I was doing. So I was pretty intimidated by the editors and the publishers, and I felt like I was a kid in school with the principal telling me what to do! It was hard for me. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#doing #editors #experience #felt #first

The principal cause of war is war itself. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#itself #principal #war

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#laws #nation #obeys #passion #powerful

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#debt #design #federal #principally #republican

The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#points #principal #reference #republic #unity