#principal

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#doing #done #good #i #know

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#critical #getting #making #making mistakes #mistakes

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#christian #christian religion #churches #deliberately #enemy

Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#association #australia #came #christian #contact

I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#bit #ego #excited #get #i

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#authors #bad #benefits #better #copyright

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#enjoy #except #know #life #man

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#been #changed #doers #empires #established

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being. ↗

— Alfred Doblin

#cities #collective #colony #coral #group

Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament. ↗

— Thomas Arnold

#bright #earth #firmament #gladly #him