#principal

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

— Samuel Butler

#enjoy #except #know #life #man

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

The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time. ↗

— John Pearson

#both #considered #expressed #many #more

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#disproved #everything #folly #his #much

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#also #both #curriculum #educators #father

The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#been #confounding #economy #improvement #obstacles

It's chemical, fancying him is purely chemical. It's intoxicating - the frisson, the attraction - it's intoxicating because it's purely chemical. But you'll just have to remember the wedding ring - divorcees don't wear wedding rings. This guy has his own Vita at home. You're his potential Suzie. Is that who you want to be? Do you want the next man in your life to have Tim's principles? ↗

— Freya North

#finding-the-right-man #principals #home

I am working on unconditional self acceptance. If I do poor or well, weather I am liked or not. I am a imperfect person in a imperfect world. I set goals and work very hard for them Its what makes me happy so I go on. ↗

— Charles Hibbs

#principal #religion #religion

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