Main Quotes - page 2

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. (Bill Clinton)
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. View quote
Thomas Hardy
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. View quote
E. M. Forster
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing. View quote
Nancy Astor
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Not more knowledge but better use of the knowledge which we now have, is perhaps the main educational need and the main educational problem which confronts us. View quote
Norman Angell
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed. View quote
William Wordsworth
You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule. View quote
Robert Butts
The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything. (Martha Graham)
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. View quote
Paul Theroux
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming. View quote
Václav Klaus
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life-becoming a better person. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness. View quote
Jack Osbourne
If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
My main objective is to be professional but to kill him Lennox Lewis. View quote
Mike Tyson
The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop. View quote
Rudolf Nureyev
The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that. View quote
Simon Pegg
There is no pressure on me, I can take a lot of risks in the coming weeks. I feel free to ski the way I decide on race-day because the overall title was not my main target this winter. View quote
Hermann Maier
Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on. (Charlotte Gainsbourg)
Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves. View quote
Dan Ariely
There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace. View quote
David Trimble
The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense. View quote
Joshua Ferris
That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes. View quote
Martina Hingis