Top 705 Main Quotes

Even if national peculiarities in character and in laws occasion differences in the curve which the woman movement describes in the different countries, yet everywhere the movement has had the same causes, must follow the same main direction, and – sooner or later – must have the same effects.
Ellen Key
The main thing is just really to play my game… and while you are playing the match, as it goes along, you kind of figure things out.
Mary Pierce
I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.
Newt Gingrich
At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the main road into the lower road.
Joseph C. Lincoln
I’m a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not to do the foods on a stick. But I like Big Fat Bacon.
Alison McGhee
To present me as the main face of the opposition movement is completely incorrect. I’m not a person who is ‘against Putin.’ I’m just a person who is standing up for a fair society, for free elections.
Ksenia Sobchak
The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.
Dee Dee Ramone
Child-rearing is my main interest now. I’m a hands-on father.
Sean Penn
The main Facebook usage is so big. About 20 percent of the time people spend on their phone is on Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg
I always have a lot of personal goals, but primarily my main goal each year is to obviously win a Super Bowl.
Michael Strahan
The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you’re going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think it’s the main stuff.
Peter Hammill
But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don’t have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they’re a movie star.
Victoria Jackson
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
Noam Chomsky
I would like to think I can win a trophy or two, but the main thing for me is to focus on consistency.
Madison Keys
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
Harold Bloom
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Otto von Bismarck
If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.
Viswanathan Anand
My mum and dad had four pubs when we were growing up, but the main one was the New Inn in Hattersley, on the estate. It was a very good pub.
Ricky Hatton
For the bourgeoisie, the main danger against which it had to be protected, that which had to be avoided at all costs, was armed uprising, was the armed people, was the workers taking to the streets in an assault against the government.
Michel Foucault
Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main end

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.
Dave Foley
The three main political parties all agree the UK deficit is high and needs to be brought down. All agree that it is easier to get a deficit down if you have faster growth, cutting unemployment-related costs and raising revenues.
John Redwood
Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.
Gavyn Davies
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
Elizabeth Moon
Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture – or what there is of it – pushing by force their system on others.
Viggo Mortensen
One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.
Danny Glover
I come from Main Street, from a small town that’s really depressed.
Ben Bernanke
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.
Jack Osbourne
I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
Viktor Yanukovych
The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.
Alia Shawkat
I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.
Mario Lemieux
I think that’s the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn’t seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests.
John Pomfret
For me, I guess the main motivation is the satisfaction of finally understanding some tricky mathematical concept or phenomenon and then explaining it to others.
Terence Tao
Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
Daniel Berrigan
My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.
John Cameron
My main wish is to get my books into other people’s rooms, and to keep other people’s books out of mine.
Samuel Butler
We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.
Martin Bashir
One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.
Rufus Wainwright
The body needs its rest, and sleep is extremely important in any health regimen. There should be three main things: eating, exercise and sleep. All three together in the right balance make for a truly healthy lifestyle.
Rohit Shetty
The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
Ed Sheeran
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
Mark Twain
You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That’s all I want. That’s all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.
Larry Fitzgerald
Let’s make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that’s one of my main messages.
Danica McKellar
The main thing is to try to put in your head that we all start from the bottom.
Virgil van Dijk
There’s definitely a list of things I’d like to do. But there’s been a lot of things I hadn’t even thought would have been possible to do that I’d been able to do, so I think I’ll surprise myself and keep breaking that glass ceiling to see what’s next. Hopefully people get surprised – that’s my main goal.
AJ Lee
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
Zhang Yimou
My dad is a big dreamer, so I got that from him. Golf was my main thing when I was a teenager, and that’s what I wanted to do.
Brandon Flowers
My main interest, however, was in economics, not law.
Merton Miller
Resentments and grudges are two of the main culprits that perpetuate cycles of self-abuse and victimhood. Stowed away inside you like parasites, they deplete you of your God-given life force and separate you from your inherent worth, your joy, and the love in your heart.
Debbie Ford
That’s my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don’t.
Jimmy Kimmel
My main concern is getting out an album that I feel really proud of.
Carly Rae Jepsen
Emotions are one of the main things that derail communi

Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.
Christopher Voss
These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They’re beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it’s just a lush sound.
Ani DiFranco
Whenever people say they didn’t like the main character of a book, they mean they didn’t like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don’t get that.
Melissa Bank
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.
Bill Gates
My main focus is, ‘What can I do today to help the team win the ballgame?’ You have those blinders on. It helps you focus.
Aaron Judge
Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.
Joe Cocker
I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.
Venus Williams
My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
Dalai Lama
One of the main things that stand out for me is the mentality of the best players. They really want to be in those big moments, have the responsibility, the trust in themselves and the self-belief.
Jos Buttler
I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.
George C. Williams