Primarily Prime Quotes

#1. Gentlemen used to lie just as schoolboys lie, because they hung together and partly to help one another out.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'

Jennifer Weiner

#3. Time moves in the Amish community without leaving much of a mark. Gray hair grows on some, wrinkles crawl across the faces of others, but the buildings stay mostly the same.

Michelle Eastwood

#4. (Of course, there really is no chicken and egg problem; certainly there were eggs long before there were chickens.)

Lee Smolin

#5. Perhaps it's understandable to be more jaded on one's second exposure to something strange.

Louis Theroux

#6. When two human beings get together, they're co-present, there is built into it a certain responsibility we have for each other, and when people are co-present in family relationships and other relationships, that responsibility is there. You can't just turn off a person. On the Internet, you can.

Neil Postman

#7. The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.

Ayn Rand

#8. Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.

John Ford

#9. True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.

Arthur Frederick Saunders

#10. The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro.

Roman Baldorioty De Castro