Top 100 Main Quotes
#1. Fear is the main factor in Arab politics ... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.
Moshe Sharett
#2. Among the cognoscenti, though, it is not just about elaborate new flavors. I always consider the main test of ice cream to be the simple ice creams, especially vanilla. One should have fun when one eats, but it should also be seriously good.
Jeffrey Steingarten
#3. You're coming up to the main house and that's final. I'm laying down the law. I know somewhere in there you're arguing with me, but I'm not taking no for an answer. You have no choice but to obey me. How do you like that, wife?
Mia Sheridan
#4. Everyone's main aim should be to find his place in life and succeed as an individual.
Sunday Adelaja
#5. The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.
James Fisher
#7. My main goal, starting out as a young actor, was to carry the reins that Pac left off and to reach the depths as an actor that I know he would have reached had he still been here with us.
Michael K. Williams
#8. The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.
Catherine Bell
#9. The main question raised by the thriller is not what kind of world we live in, or what reality is like, but what it has done to us.
Ralph Harper
#10. When a filmmaker does not make films, it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail. The main question is: why should it be a crime to make a movie? A finished film, well, it can get banned but not the director.
Jafar Panahi
#11. The main substance of our universe is LOVE
Everything else comes right behind it!
Timothy Pina
#12. Others are my main concern. When I notice something of mine, I steal it and give it to others.
Shantideva
#13. It's not hard to create self-beliefs that produce a successful and happy life. The main job is to unlearn your limiting beliefs.
Maddy Malhotra
#14. There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.
Paul Hawken
#15. I don't want to be labeled one thing. My main thing I care about is being able to create the things I want to do with my friends, whatever platform that is.
Derek Waters
#16. The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we always gonna be down through whatever the thick and thin.
Raekwon
#17. They are young, full of ambition and dreams; they are still unable to imagine that there might be a story in the world in which they are not the main characters.
Juan Gomez Barcena
#18. Sex was the main component of her thoughts now. But love - and her desperate longing for it - had vanished from her heart like a migraine after a painkiller.
Augustine Sam
#19. My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.
Susan Hampshire
#20. Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#21. Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion ... Nobody knows who's in charge. Nobody knows the chain of command.
Laurie Garrett
#22. Weddings are quite similar to funerals in that, apart from the main players, when it's all over, people are never quite sure what they should be doing next, which is why they see if there is any wine left.
Terry Pratchett
#23. To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency to apply ingenious methods largely because they are so attractively ingenious.
Michael Healy
#24. I followed Barry closely as we walked through the main doors of the hospital, down the corridor that smelt like disinfectant and false hope.
Belinda Jeffrey
#25. Can this really call itself a cake when its main ingredients are cheese and carrots?
Sarra Manning
#26. Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.
Samuel Beckett
#27. People who are tired of K Street corruption and Wall Street greed are ready for Main Street Values.
Mike Huckabee
#28. Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.
Edsger Dijkstra
#29. The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.
Jean Piaget
#30. I'm mad emotional. But my emotions are - I don't really get just like sad, I get hyper, and I be like mad, and I get hungry - that's like my main emotion.
Vince Staples
#31. A king without a queen is not a king. The main point of creation is the union of male and female.
Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson
#32. And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.
Elizabeth Olsen
#33. I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.
Nathan Fillion
#35. The Zionists' ... main preoccupation is not to save Jews alive out of Europe but to get Jews into Palestine.
Richard Crossman
#36. Every man is an island, and every heart seeks the ferry to cross the main...
Mykyta Isagulov
#37. The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.
Hayley Atwell
#38. The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.
Agnes Martin
#39. The main thing is to make the main thing the main thing.
Anonymous
#40. I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#41. I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists.
Jonathan Franzen
#42. We must not think, "Well, we have all the truth, we understand the main pillars of our faith, and we may rest on this knowledge." The truth is an advancing truth, and we must walk in the increasing light.
Ellen G. White
#43. In Lubbock, we grew up with two main things: God loves you and he's gonna send you to hell, and that sex is bad and dirty and nasty and awful and you should save it for the one you love.
Butch Hancock
#44. The direct market has evolved into a machine that is very good at selling corporate-owned superhero titles published by two main companies: DC and Marvel.
Chris Roberson
#45. As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.
Donald Evans
#46. A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection
Michelangelo
#47. My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra.
Michael Fassbender
#48. Being put in this situation, where it's myself, Kyle O'Reilly and a Jay Lethal, I think it's the best main event you can have right now in Ring of Honor.
Adam Cole
#49. One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen.
Robert Kiyosaki
#50. My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits,' Augustus said. 'And getting drunk on the porch.
Larry McMurtry
#52. I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
Gail Carriger
#53. To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.
George Saunders
#54. Because we all know one of the main factors of war is the element of surprise. And what could be more surprising than the First Batallion Transvestite Brigade? Airborne Wing.
Eddie Izzard
#56. Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.
Swami Vivekananda
#57. Even T.E. Lawrence, who hardly knew the meaning of fear, was by Sassoon's own account, terrified after only five minutes of his driving; 'my methods of turning from side roads into main roads were abrupt in those days' Sassoon added by way of explanation.
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
#58. To be a good sports journalist takes many things, but the main thing it takes is the ability to listen and follow your nose - see something, sense something and follow it.
Steve Bunce
#59. 'Ek Main Aur Ek Tu' was a very special film for me. Imran and we complement each other very well. He is sugar, and I am spice.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#60. Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.
Robert Ludlum
#61. The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.
Katharine Whitehorn
#62. I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.
George C. Williams
#63. My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick one in.
John Wayne
#64. I announce the resignation of the government, perhaps as the only way for Lebanon's main political blocs to assume their responsibilities and come together to pull Lebanon out of an unknown tunnel.
Najib Mikati
#65. We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.
Jackie Tabick
#66. I'm a very, very basic photographer. The main strength of my pictures, I guess, is the mood and feel I get out of the people that I meet. But technically I don't think I'm very advanced. That never interested me.
Anton Corbijn
#67. But the main reason you should read this is that I don't see why I should have to know all these terrible, terrible things and you should get off scot free.
David Strorm
#68. After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from the Pacific. Out at sea, many of these sailors had picked up amatory habits that were frowned upon back on dry land. So these sailors stayed in San Francisco ...
Jeffrey Eugenides
#69. The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.
James Jones
#70. The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
Bernard M. Baruch
#71. It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.
Timothy Keller
#72. Awareness is the main dilemma of human existence. I looked upon the professors as sages who had all the answers and upon the university as the temple of knowledge. How could an insane person like her
Eckhart Tolle
#73. Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.
Ludwig Von Mises
#74. I'm going to the main event of Wrestlemania! Where're you going?
Randy Orton
#75. In a large sense, Main Street is the American origin story. It's an evocation of the American creation tale, and the kick is that the American origin story is a never-ending one, a perpetual tale of creation and re-creation, an eternal now.
Leslie Le Mon
#76. The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.
Martin Seligman
#77. I grew up with my older brother listening to hip hop, and Jay-Z was the main person I listened to. When it comes to his word play, he's just out of this world. That's my biggest inspiration when it comes to writing lyrics.
Tinchy Stryder
#79. I peered around the corner into the main recovery ward. All I could see were surgeons. Surgeons filling out those incessant forms. Surgeons bringing cups of tea and little sandwich triangles to patients. Surgeons laying in a lethargic stupor, recovering from eye surgery.
Lauren Pearce
#80. One of the main things when you get notes from a studio is they don't want anyone to be confused ever, everything has got to be so obvious at all times unless it's a twist ending.
Rob Zombie
#81. America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.
Taylor Hawkins
#82. An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.
Albert Einstein
#83. I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not.
Jonathan Coe
#84. Spielberg was very young and starting up when we did Sugarland Express and I loved that, but the main thing was that I really loved his talent.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#85. He found some dignity in the back pocket of his newly acquired pants and walked up into the main apartment, only tripping once. Or twice.
Charlie Jane Anders
#86. I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.
Warren Buffett
#87. One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008.
William J. Clinton
#89. It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#90. One of the main reasons is that most Sunday school curricula only teaches disconnected Bible stories. They don't teach how we know the Bible is true, how to defend the faith, and how to answer the skeptical questions of today.
Ken Ham
#91. All of my main characters have been under 30.
Tamra Davis
#92. In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.
Bill Gates
#93. Books is our main type of content, but we include user-generated content and will include other verticals such as scientific papers, sheet music, and comic books.
Trip Adler
#94. Getting old always means a hardening of the main trait of one's character.
Jean Guehenno
#95. I think main storylines are what always intrigued me, with those that were the relationships between the characters against whatever backdrop, whether it was in an ordinary universe or a universe in the future.
John Noble
#96. The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
Gene Tierney
#97. Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?"
Leigh Whannell
#98. Civilian notions about unreasonable search and seizure and warrants and probable cause stop at an army post main gate.
Lee Child
#99. One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.
R. H. Tawney
#100. The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
Saul Bellow
