Top 454 Primary Quotes

If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father’s plan would be frustrated.
David A. Bednar
Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story – and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books – is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.
Ashwin Sanghi
Pepper mills (aka pepper grinders) rank just behind knives as primary causes of horrific kitchen accidents, according to an unofficial study that occurred in my life experience.
Chris Morocco
Senator Arlen Specter hasn’t really switched parties; he’s simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election.
Michael Reagan
I come from Ambedkar Nagar, a small district in Uttar Pradesh 200 kilometres away from Lucknow. My father was an engineer in the army and my mother, Gyan Bala, a health supervisor in a government primary health centre. My father passed away when I was three.
Arunima Sinha
The body doesn’t accept the lack of food, and it suffers from the temptation of food and from other aspects which gnaw at it perpetually. The body fights back sure enough, but at the end of the day, everything returns to the primary consideration – that is, the mind.
Bobby Sands
The primary goal is to entertain people because… Fortunately, the kind of movies I have been doing have a certain message, they break taboos, and they are socially relevant. So it’s a great mix of content and entertainment.
Ayushmann Khurrana
Teenagers’ relationships with their parents often aren’t really explored in much depth, but at that age, it’s your primary relationship; they’re the people you live with.
Miles Heizer
If you work at a 10,000-person company, and you’re using e-mail as the primary means of communication, then you probably have access to a couple hundredths of 1 percent of all the communications happening across the company. But if you use Slack, you might have access to 10 or 20 percent.
Stewart Butterfield
Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience – communication across every device and every platform will remain a primary focus.
Tony Bates
My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.
Bob Gunton
When I started writing ‘Batman,’ I lobbied heavily to get rid of Robin – or at least not use him in the stories I wrote. Fighting crime with a teenager dressed in primary colors while you’re sporting a gray-and-black outfit always struck me as child endangerment, if not abuse.
Jim Starlin
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Charles Eames
My dad, Chris, is from St Kitts. He worked in computers. I remember the first laptop when he brought it home. People from primary school came to check it out – it was huge.
Corinne Bailey Rae
The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.
Lord Mountbatten
As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I have made our nation’s response to cyberwarfare a primary focus.
Patrick Murphy
Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I’ve expressed myself since I was 17.
Hari Kondabolu
We don’t want to think about money in an ideal life; in a well-lived life, money wouldn’t be one of our primary concerns, and we prefer to adopt the ostrich position.
John Lanchester
We have been blessed with substantial opportunities to continue to expand our business globally. This ultimately will create more jobs for the state of Missouri, and I am choosing to make that my primary focus.
David Steward
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
Primary care providers and community health centers can do more to provide the full range of reproductive healthcare in their clinics. In turn, reproductive health providers should also look to expand their services to cover patients’ primary care concerns.
Leana S. Wen
In some films it wouldn’t be surprising to see the United States envisioned as a significant but not primary dominant marketplace, and treated accordingly. But in comics, that’s for the governing minds at each of the companies and corporations to find out for themselves.
Chris Claremont
Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white people. You can’t hold one group down without lifting the other up.
Robin DiAngelo
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
John Berger
Marriage does figure in my life, as I do want to have children. But I could also consider having children without getting married. The primary thing is having a good father, a partner who could be there with me through that journey.
Jacqueline Fernandez
Maryland first allowed early voting during the 2010 primary elections. In November 2012, more than 16 percent of registered voters in Maryland cast their ballots during the early voting period, and some polling places, particularly in our larger jurisdictions, witnessed early voting lines that were hours long.
Martin O’Malley
Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta’s Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
Aaron Klein
At the end of primary school, I went to secondary school. I paid $12 a term to go to school.
Joyce Banda
My primary goal is to be a solo artist releasing original music.
Sid Sriram
The primary goal of the so-called nonfiction text is to

The primary goal of the so-called nonfiction text is to relay the facts of an event – the facts about a person, the facts of history – which is not why I turned to this genre.
John D’Agata
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Denis Waitley
In 2001, we were like most high-tech companies, with one or two primary products that were really important to us.
John T. Chambers
The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I’m afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in ‘The Nation’ or not. But you want to participate.
Tony Kushner
My dad was a vicar and my mum was a primary school teacher, so I was always aware of being in a very supportive family.
Hugh Dennis
Politicians have been the primary hurdle to reforms, and corruption is the center of the problem.
Park Won-soon
I grew up speaking Spanish. The woman who helped raise me was only Spanish-speaking, so it was one of my primary languages as a kid. And I lived in Spain for a while.
Zoe Kazan
The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.
Aaron Ciechanover
I’ve always been interested, since graduate school, in why some children wilt and shrink back from challenges and give up in the face of obstacles, while others avidly seek challenges and become even more invested in the face of obstacles. So this has been my primary question for over 40 years.
Carol S. Dweck
Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system.
Tony Tan
A corporation’s primary goal is to make money. Government’s primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
Larry Ellison
Cleaning up that lack of the definition between the two, and then leaning on the four-seam, having it become my primary fastball over my two-seam, it’s just benefited me as a whole.
Gerrit Cole
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
Claude Bernard
One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.
Daniel Goldstein
A lot of times, people find themselves in a meeting where the primary purpose is to receive information, and that’s a poor use of people’s time. Those meetings can be easily dispensed with and can be an email instead that people read in their own time.
Patrick Lencioni
I never think in terms of how we can compete against the other companies; rather, our primary focus is to make consumers feel the uniqueness and attractiveness of our products.
Satoru Iwata
I was given this music programme called Cubase, one of the first multi-layering programmes, when I was seven, and I graduated to Logica at 11, and that became my primary instrument.
Jacob Collier
Many entrepreneurs have shifted their focus to pursuing VC funding as a primary strategic priority instead of concentrating on generating value for their users. This is worrisome because raising capital alone is misleading as a benchmark for success.
Jon Oringer
Sadly, cinemas with film as the primary source are disappearing. We need to remain open to change. That does not require one to divorce the past but to respect and process both the present and the future.
Robert Richardson
Although individual states have primary responsibility for conducting fair and impartial elections, the FBI becomes involved when paramount federal interests are affected or electoral abuse occurs.
James Comey
The primary victory of Roy Moore in Alabama over the candidate for the U.S. Senate seat backed by President Trump suggests that that not even Trump himself can control the forces that he unleashed.
Charlie Sykes
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
Chuck Close
The sun is the primary puzzle in the universe.
Eugene Parker
Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company.
Patrick Lencioni