Prime Quotes

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. (Leonhard Euler)
One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full. View quote
Muriel Spark
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to and encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president. View quote
Indra Nooyi
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual. View quote
Alexander Fleming
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. View quote
Bill Gates
I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spend all your time thinking about them. View quote
Mark Haddon
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism. View quote
Elihu Root
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped. View quote
Christiaan Barnard
God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers. View quote
Paul Erdős
For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis. (Boris Johnson)
I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time. View quote
Lalu Prasad Yadav
I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested. View quote
Winston Churchill
When I warned the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their prime minister and his divided cabinet, 'In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.' Some chicken some neck. View quote
Winston Churchill
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. View quote
Dalai Lama
I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems. View quote
James Cash Penney
By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar. View quote
Silvio Berlusconi
I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man to ever become Prime Minister in Italy. View quote
Silvio Berlusconi
Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis. (Jean Chrétien)
On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government. View quote
Kim Campbell
You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none. View quote
Brian Mulroney
You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it – the population would be horrified. View quote
Edward Heath
This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men, and perhaps women, in this country walking around with eggs in their pockets, just on the off-chance of seeing the Prime Minister. View quote
Edward Heath