The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies.
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
Avery fine city; the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in one city together? In a word,'tis the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted.
Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.
You really see life around the principals to be as important as the main, principal actors. That's what cinéma vérité taught me - that it's not a question of having a main character, a great actor, and the rest is unimportant. Every detail, every face in the crowd is important.
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.
If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.
It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game being the discovery of the totally unexpected.
Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.
The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.
In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself.
Whatever people are doing, they're probably going to be doing it five years from now. You have your banker, your general store runner, the principal of the school, and things of that sort. It's nice to see that, and to get old with other people.
Shooting is my principal pastime.
It is indeed one of the principal drawbacks of every kind of interventionism that it is so difficult to reverse the process.