#principal

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#constantly #frenzy #our #passion #principals

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#fiscal #just #policy #president #principally

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 task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#conductor #disappear #evidence #functions #himself

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. ↗

— Martin Luther

#fail #first #must #people #perform

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

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

— Herman Melville

#know #nature #never #principal #quality

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

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