Prime Quotes - Page 13

• Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Gratitude, Emotional, Imagination

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• The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Fighting, History, Police

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• The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.

  George Orwell

  Wisdom, Charming Smile, Clothes

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• When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

  Andrew Forrest

  Country, Growing Up, Ministers

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• Still sweet with blossoms is the year's fresh prime.

  William C. Bryant

  Sweet, Spring, Years

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• Rosalynn said, "Jimmy, if we could only get Prime Minister Begin and President Sadat up here on this mountain for a few days, I believe they might consider how they could prevent another war between their countries." That gave me the idea, and a few weeks later, I invited both men to join me for a series of private talks. In September 1978, they both came to Camp David.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Peace, War

  Jimmy Carter (1995). “Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation”, Puffin

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• Then be not coy, but use your time;
  And while ye may, go marry:
  For having lost but once your prime,
  You may for ever tarry.

  Robert Herrick

  Use, May, Rose Buds

  'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'

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• Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us how tobe men. He can escape us, but we can never escape him. Present or absent, dead or alive, real or imagined, our father is the main man in our masculinity.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Real, Boys

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• Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Ideas, Long, Sound

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• Today our (Society of Jesus) prime educational objective must be to form men (and women) for others; men (and women) who will live not for themselves but for God and his Christ - for the God-man who lived and died for all the world; men (and women) who cannot even conceive of love of God which does not include love for the least of their neighbors; men (and women) completely convinced that love of God which does not issue in justice for others is a farce.

  Pedro Arrupe

  Jesus, Educational, Men

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• My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Moving On, Happy, Moving Forward

  Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.nas.gov.sg. January 24, 2004.

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• One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

  Alex Cox

  Law, Study, Ministers

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• The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is a prime example. Even though Obama KNEW - from the moment of the assault - that it was a TERRORIST attack, he didn't let the American people know.

  Chuck Norris

  People, Example, Moments

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• The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.

  Denis Thatcher

  Country, Spring, Party

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• Does the Lord intend to make man happy? Sure... but it's a byproduct, not a prime product.

  Paris Reidhead

  Men, Doe, Lord

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• I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Pain, Book, Writing

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• We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Couple, Politics, Sometimes

  'The Unbearable Bassington' (1912)

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• Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and this makes them see their humanism as a kind of crusade, with the killing of Christianity as its prime goal.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Religious, Past

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• Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.

  Stockwell Day

  Party, Opportunity, Government

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• Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

  Ben Stein

  Christian, Religious, Islands

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• Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.

  Mircea Eliade

  Men, World, Sacred

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• They said that President Bush's war in Iraq has cost the former Spanish Prime Minister his job. So President Bush isn't losing American jobs anymore, he's branching out to other countries.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Jobs, War

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• Where beats a heart within a human breast,
  There be Thou present, and Thy power adored!
  And oh! since all one common race are doom'd
  To run, and one eternal goal to reach,
  May Thy prime attribute each bosom warm
  With tender sympathy and truth; may man
  To man be link'd to man in fellowship of soul,
  Till one vast chain of Love embrace the world!

  Robert Montgomery

  Running, Heart, Men

  "The Omnipresence of the Deity: And Other Poems".

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• ... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

  Julia Marlowe

  Artist, Acting, Essentials

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• The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact - and the barn in ruins, ended the week with a great raft of ethics proposals for cabinet, leadership candidates, backbenchers and lobbyists. I think it is more than fair to ask: Why wait for the middle of his third term to institute what the public would have welcomed at the beginning of his first?

  Rex Murphy

  Horse, Thinking, Waiting

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