Top 100 Quotes About Primarily
#1. Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
Albert Einstein
#2. I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with special reference to Ethiopia.
Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi
#3. These countries formally achieved independence ,but they didn't achieve real freedom, since freedom of any kind is primarily spiritual.the independence of a people which has not first won this is soon reduced to an anthem and a flag , two very minor factors for true independence
Alija Izetbegovic
#4. My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real, more visible and palpable, than in actual life. For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#5. Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.
Lamar Alexander
#6. Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
Nat King Cole
#7. Anyone who gets his or her political news primarily from the New York Times (which made the ethically challenged carpetbagger Hillary a senator) is a fool.
Camille Paglia
#8. God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.
James MacDonald
#9. The Olympics is a time primarily for sport and celebration, but diplomacy does not stop at the door of the U.N., and for it to work, it must be sustained and consistent.
Douglas Alexander
#10. I primarily live in New York City, a place that is about constants, not letting up and not stopping.
Waris Ahluwalia
#11. So when in the future you will read with delight the horoscope, and will be based on these projections your life, remember that you are primarily the owners and masters of your destiny. And it's not an allegation. "Stars" affect. But do not govern. They create the background, mood.
Tatiana Danina
#12. We are not saved in order to be a blessing to other people
you will be that inevitably
but primarily we are saved in order to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God's Son.
Alan Redpath
#13. The Industrial Revolution is primarily a virus revolution, dedicated to proliferation of identical objects and persons. You are making soap, you don't give a shit who buys your soap, the more the soapier.
William S. Burroughs
#14. People respond when they are taught, and that primarily by example, rather than preached at. Jesus modeled just this approach in His life."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#15. The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.
Don Paterson
#16. Boxing has always been a primarily urban pastime (whereas the defining suburban sport is auto-racing, in which the machine and its anonymous mechanics hold far greater importance than the driver). When white Americans left the cities, they left boxing as well.
A.J. Liebling
#17. While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change.
Peter Ferrara
#19. I am primarily a loner. I don't go to clubs. I don't hang out with people. I don't know many people. It's just the way it ended up. It's not a sob story; it's fine for me.
Henry Rollins
#20. Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.
J.I. Packer
#21. Love is primarily manifested through action. Love is something you do.
Ben Young
#22. faith that's primarily intellectual - that is, a matter of mastering information - is deceptively fragile.
Rod Dreher
#23. When we approach the Bible as history and biography, we approach the Bible in the wrong spirit. We must read the Bible, not primarily as historians seeking information, but as men and women seeking God.
Billy Graham
#24. Christianity is not primarily about lifestyle change; it is about knowing God.
Michael Reeves
#25. Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language, stirring it up. And prose is not doing that. Primarily it's not attempting to do that.
Pattiann Rogers
#26. Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
Sharon Salzberg
#27. The public symbols and constant reminders of black subjugation were supported by whites across the political spectrum, though the plight of poor whites remained largely unchanged. For them, the racial bribe was primarily psychological.
Michelle Alexander
#28. Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.
Carolyn Kizer
#29. Our identity as the people of God is marked primarily by our faithfulness in obedience to Him.
Max Anders
#30. The department was set up primarily to protect us from another terrorist attack from Islamic terrorists, and yet they talk about everything but that.
Peter T. King
#31. We've got at least two other streams of that are filled with good, helpful material on meditation - the Catholic stream and the Quaker stream that are not primarily based on meditating on the Scripture.
Timothy Keller
#32. The great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful.
Milton Friedman
#33. Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
William J. Clinton
#34. I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.
Ben Shahn
#35. Kentucky as a whole has lagged behind the rest of the nation in almost every field of government and public service, primarily because the fiercely independent and uncooperative mentality of the frontier hunter-farmer has remained so deeply and tenaciously embedded in the mass psyche.
Harry M. Caudill
#36. In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.
Floyd Skloot
#37. I want to go wherever there's great work. I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever, though, so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.
Aml Ameen
#38. The somatic marker hypothesis (Damasio, 1994) provides neurobiological support for the notion that people make judgments not only by evaluating the consequences and their probability of occurring, but also and even sometimes primarily at a gut or emotional level
Oshin Vartanian
#39. Before Socrates, philosophers were primarily interested in explaining the world around them and the phenomena of that world - in doing what we would now call science. Although Socrates studied science as a young man, he abandoned it to focus his attention on the human condition.
William B. Irvine
#40. Grace means primarily the free, forgiving love of God in Christ to sinners and the operation of that love in the lives of Christians.
A.M. Hunter
#41. The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
Marc Andreessen
#42. The more a man can make a woman laugh, the more attracted she will be to him. This is primarily because women seem to prefer dominating mates. As studies shows, women tend to laugh more at men they are interested into and men are attracted to those women who laugh at their jokes.
F.R. Lifestyle
#43. A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.
Albert Einstein
#44. How is it then that we've come to imagine that Christianity consists primarily in what we do for God? How has this come to be the good news of Jesus?
Brennan Manning
#45. Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.
Alana Stewart
#46. I expect to see, on television, the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan decrying to the whole world that my client should be in jail for rendering kindness and compassion, primarily because the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan is a religious nut.
Geoffrey Fieger
#47. Assertions that the modern homosexual and modern gay subculture are significantly different from the past are based primarily upon ignorance of that past.
Rictor Norton
#48. I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.
Walt Disney
#49. After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.
Alex Winter
#50. For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is one in which non-Jews can become citizens and enjoy equal civil rights with the Jewish majority, the question of natural law is the question of human rights.
David Novak
#51. Hitler reacted primarily in a sadistic fashion toward people, but masochistically toward fate, history, the "higher power" of nature.
Erich Fromm
#52. Organized religion is primarily man putting words in God's mouth. That's how I basically feel about that. But, I do believe in believing and I admire it. I just don't think it should be exclusive or judgmental.
Kathleen Turner
#53. Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.
Vincent Bugliosi
#54. People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.
Mason Cooley
#55. The type of adverts to be found on television and in glossy magazines are visually designed to have a power over the mind before they can even be questioned. The dark side of my work, primarily concerns the internal mechanisms of visual imagery and how these mechanisms address the mind.
Mat Collishaw
#56. I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#57. The reason the Jews hate Nazis is primarily because they didn't come up with the idea first.
Tom Metzger
#58. We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#59. I think that one must approach the Logos Savior, not induced by the fear of punishment and not in the expectation of some kind of a reward, but primarily for the sake of the good in itself. Such will stand on the right in the sanctuary.
Clement Of Alexandria
#60. If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#61. To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.
Lamar Alexander
#62. Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.
Eric Hoffer
#63. Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.
Andre Malraux
#65. Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.
Alice Dreger
#66. Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
Eric Hoffer
#67. You forget, my good man, that what the artist perceives is, primarily, the difference between things. It is the vulgar who note their resemblance.
Vladimir Nabokov
#68. President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people.
Edward Brooke
#69. The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.
T. S. Eliot
#70. Beware when any idea is promoted primarily because it is "bold, exciting, innovative, and new." There are many ideas that are "bold, exciting, innovative and new," but also foolish.
Donald Rumsfeld
#71. Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim - ... for discovery of cosmic truths - when all you're really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.
Margaret Caroline Anderson
#72. That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions.
Malcolm X
#73. Why is it that so few "pretty people" without checkered pasts are used mightily in the Scriptures? Because the Bible is primarily about God's grace, not about human cleanliness.
Matt Chandler
#74. Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.
Rem Koolhaas
#75. People like to think the creative process is romantic. The artist drifts to sleep at night, to be awakened by the subliminal echoes of his or her next brilliant idea. The truth, for me at least, is that creativity is primarily the result of hard work and study.
Grant Achatz
#76. Dating is primarily a numbers game ... People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That's just the way it is.
Henry Cloud
#77. For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.
Mary Bono
#78. This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.
Wietse Venema
#79. The conflict you're having is not primarily about them; God is working in this conflict to reveal something about you.
Matt Chandler
#80. There's a freedom there and an understanding of my career and the things I've done. I'm seen here as primarily a comic actor, which is OK, but I can go to New York and I do something that's very emotional. It would be lovely at some point to do something like that on film.
Nathan Lane
#81. The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.
Indira Gandhi
#82. External research never depends on the size of the payment being received it is primarily determined by what is needed to create the best possible solution to the client's desires and requirements. The research required is also dependent upon the specific project or industry.
Jeff Fisher
#83. 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
#84. Thus we find the source of our new multiple murderer primarily among the ambitious who failed - or who believed they would fail - and who seek another form of success in the universal celebrity and attention they will receive through their extravagant homicides.
Elliott Leyton
#85. Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
Albert Camus
#86. By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.
Wallace Stegner
#87. My bat mitzvah portion is about many things, but I think it is primarily about who we are wholly there for, and how that, more than anything else, defines our identity.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#88. It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.
Richard C. Armitage
#89. Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.
Ian McKellen
#90. The building of Kuwait and her Eminence, it's defense and protection, is primarily a responsibility by her people and the efforts of her children
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
#91. The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
Barney Frank
#92. Poverty is a human-engineered product per excellence. It results primarily from inequitable distribution of national revenues coupled with escalating levels of corruption and mismanagement of national resources.
Moutasem Algharati
#93. If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly speaking, there is but one religion in the world, for there is but one God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#94. I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.
Robin Wright
#95. Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose main components are concern for liberty and haste to abolish the State.
Daniel Guerin
#96. The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.
E.F. Schumacher
#97. If we are going to accomplish the global purpose of God, it will not be primarily through giving our money, as important as that is. It will happen primarily through giving ourselvs. This is what the gospel represents and this is what the gospel requires.
David Platt
#98. People are probably correct when they see me as the so-called Everyman. I'm attracted primarily to contemporary characters. I understand them and their frustrations.
Jack Lemmon
#99. The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.
Shiv Khera
#100. According to the New Testament, the church is primarily a body of people who profess and give evidence that they have been saved by God's grace alone, for His glory alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
Mark Dever
