#principal

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. ↗

— Mary Kay Blakely

#because #call #child #cocky #driven

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#fact #i #ought #our #principal

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

#became #children #disaster #drunk #end

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

— Richard Branson

#obviously #our #own #personal #personal point

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#half #i #inferior #land #large

I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#am #assure #being #crisis #excellency

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

— Pete Townshend

#hearing #helped #i #invent #makes

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. ↗

— Pierre Trudeau

#boat #drafted #fact #go #government

Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms. ↗

— Karl Landsteiner

#chemical #constitution #dealing #determined #difficulty

The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#division #expressed #free #free trade #international