Quotation Explorer - 'Main'

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. - Erich Fromm
My main task as an artist is to show you either what you have never seen before -- or to show you what you have seen countless times, in a way you've never seen it. - Mike Duron
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. - Ernest Hemingway
Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire? - Gustave Flaubert
Log kehte hain hum unko bhul gaye hain,Lekin unhe kya pata bhulna hamari fitrat main nahin bas thodi si overacting ho gai.... - UD
Il (Georges Perros) arrivait le mardi matin, ébouriffé de vent et de froid sur sa moto bleue et rouillée. Voûté, dans un caban marine, la pipe à la bouche ou dans sa main. Il vidait une sacoche de livres sur la table. Et c’était la vie. - Jean-Marie Gibbal
the main thing is to make history not to write it - Otto von Bismarck
I know that story, when you start a fight, the main idea is one to survive, one to be the victim and one to be the killer. This explains why FBI, CSI and DIA and other departments are here! - Deyth Banger
Let's dispel a little myth. Working hard is NOT the key to success. It may be an ingredient, but it isn't the main one. - Tim Fargo
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. - E.M. Forster
When I was a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; " that business minded people can meet there easily!" Your dream must be situated where they can meet people! - Israelmore Ayivor
Live, share and learn the art of true deep listening. The main keys are honesty and humility.Cultivate good filters in the mind. Conquer and tame the ego. If words and actions pass from your lips, sights and tapping words in the keyboard, don't forget to ask first, "Is it true, necessary and kind? - Angelica Hopes
We all know that Hurry is the main cause of Worry. Yet we Hurry and Worry and miss the most beautiful experience called Life. - RVM
Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth - Rolf Peterson
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. - Rene Descartes
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. - George Bernard Shaw
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. - H. L. Mencken
Lack of commitment is the main reason for failure among Christian leaders - Sunday Adelaja
He doesn't have the greatest smarts in the world. His main interests in school were broads and booze.
The handle of the heart is the hand of another. (La poignée du cœur - Est la main de l'autre.) - Charles de Leusse
Personal relationship with God is the main condition for quality in life. - Sunday Adelaja
Personally, I believe Young Adult to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring. - Shannon Hale
Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world. - Pierre Janet
Your life is a movie. You are the main character. You say your scripts and act to your lines. Of course you do your lines in each scene. There is a hidden camera and a director who you can ask for help anytime up above. - Diana Rose Morcilla
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. - Rebecca West
Man's main task is to give birth to himself. - Erich Fromm
Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple. - Debasish Mridha
If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted. - Alec Ross
Everything in your life should be subject to the main purpose of life. - Sunday Adelaja
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. - George Carlin
When an animal comes between the lion and its prey, the animal first becomes the prey before the main prey. - Uzoma Nnadi
Affect the main character or characters and you win the game. - Deyth Banger
The adversaries main goal is to confuse & discourage the great. - Auliq-Ice
Our friend has a creed; and the main tenet of that creed is: There is no God, and is his prophet. Wolfgang Pauli - Dirac
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead. - Arthur Honegger
If the good is not dependent on the bad and can be separated from it, one gives effect to the good that remains after the separation if it still gives effect to the main objective. - Johann Kriegler
Sex was the main component of her thoughts now. But love - and her desperate longing for it - had vanished from her heart like a migraine after a painkiller. - Augustine Sam
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. - Albert Einstein
My main hope for myself is to be where I am.
The main thing is to be full of life. Everything else is secondary. - Marty Rubin
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. - Albert Schweitzer
Society shall never make progress unless it changes its basic objective of making things easier;instead our main objective should be to make men stronger!I say "men" as women have always had and shall continue to have all the strength needed!!-(Woods oration-2008) - Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad
The main causes for divorceare marriages. - A.J. Beirens
Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use. - Giuseppe Peano
It is neither cowardice nor betrayal to insist that the Enlightenment's main lesson is to be mindful of how much it has left its inheritors to figure out. - Samuel Moyn
Trust is the main part of any kind of love, if you lost it then you must be failed it. - Sudeb Gharami
As a leader, your main responsibility is to remove any barriers that stand in the way. - Adam Smith
A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war. - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Sober Minds give the world a chance. True Love brings you Hope. Blind Faith moves mountains. And the main savior from despair is Laughter. - Lara Biyuts
The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works. - John H. Gerstner
The principle of God is every human created for the help of other human to survive the journey of life but the principle of God gonna wrong way, as now human are the main cause of destruction of other human. - Arbab Jehangir
The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion. - Immanuel Kant
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment. - Walter Lippmann
Courage, self-reliance and decisiveness are the main traits that define a man. - Ogwo David Emenike
I found awesome quotes here which are marvel, but the main problem is that from 10000000000000000000000000 people which is an endless result few of them read them. What happens with the other part?? To clever to read this? - Deyth Banger
The study of the past is the main portal through which culture is acquired. - Joseph Epstein
It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus - Stefan Molyneux
There is no such thing as a perfect person in this world. We all must become the main characters or the stars of our lives. We are all different and start differently. But from whatever is our circumstances, it is very important that we find the opportunities to try out what we want to do. - Goo Hye Sun
This world is a favourite movie to God, made by God and life is the main character of that movie. - iqra iqbal
She won't know it if I'm not say it." Say that 3 times, and you should know what's the main problem. - Olivia Sinaga
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. - Pierre Trudeau
The creation of a line of forts opposite to the French frontier will enable the German troops to be economized on that line and will enable the main forces to swing round through Belgium and Holland.
There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
We Born, Get Education, Get Jobs, Earn, Spend, Save And Eventually Die. That Can't Be Right. There Must Be Something Important We're Missing. We're Too Busy Following That Same Circle That We Forget Our Main Purpose of Life, To Know Ourselves.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan
The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word. - Oswald Chambers
They were untouched by modern education, but their government was striving with might and main to procure this inestimable benefit for them; anticlericalism and American bustle would soon free them from belief in miracles and holy likenesses. - Robertson Davies
Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be. - George R.R. Martin
Curiosity is the main energy... - Robert Rauschenberg
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably. - George Bernard Shaw
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle
Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters. - Patricia Hamill
Understanding of reality is the main key of happiness :) - Arya vidhan
Look at your life as your main career and your divine classroom. - Judith Orloff
Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides. - Lurlene McDaniel
The main element of true reconciliation is the public education system. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa
Shaq pe hai yaqeen unko,Yaqeen pe hai shaq Mujhy..........Kis ka jhoot jhoot hai,Kis ke sach main sach nahi,Hai ke hai nahi,Bas yehi sawaal hai,Aur sawaal ka jawaab bhi, Sawaal hai..........Dil ki gar sunoon to hai,Dimaag ki to hai nahi,Jaan loon ke jaan doon,Main rahoon ke main nahi!! - Vishal Bharadwaj - Haider Film
Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out. - Robert Henri
All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important. - Isabelle Rowan
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. - George Bernard Shaw
This World is mine. You All are mine. I am a part of you. You are a part of me. Always and Forever. Main Rahoon Ya Na Rahoon. - Avijeet 'Musafir' Das
A man’s main purpose in life is to find his ground, till it and care for it, bringing the Kingdom ofGod there and establishing the Lordship of Jesus Christ over it. - Sunday Adelaja
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. - Neil deGrasse Tyson
There are two main predictions for the future; it’s either appealing or appalling.An appealing future is created by people who identify their real values in life and believe in what they can do. - Israelmore Ayivor
Since graduating from HMS my greatest satisfaction has unequivocally been my family. My main disappointment is that I have wasted too much time in personal pursuits and been less of an influence for good than I might have been. - Norris B. Finlayson
Character is the main object of education. - Mary Wooley
Films are about entering the world from distance... little being part of all people, series are all about entering the whole world with both feet... being part of all main characters or not only the main... but the killers... victims. - Deyth Banger
One of the main reasons and excuses behind every religious failure is a FALSE PROMISE. - M.F. Moonzajer
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. - Albert Schweitzer
Speaking the truth is the main attribute of a pure hearted person. - Eraldo Banovac
The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things. - Alistair Begg
Worshipping ‘Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] is equal to worshiping the Pure Soul and it is indeed same as the worship of absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). And it is the main cause for moksha [final liberation]. - Dada Bhagwan
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing. - John Green
Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when the words won't come at all and the other is logorrhea, when the words come so fast that they can hardly get to the wastebasket in time.
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. - Bertrand Russell
Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it. - George Carlin
Live your life as a novel with a daring, awesome main character; otherwise you’re just there for comic relief. - Alexandra Bunker
This [ban bossy] campaign is indicative of one of the main problems with feminism today -- the idea that women are victims in need of more and more special protection. - Karin Agness
The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time. Not only that, but maybe the basic message of original sin isn't "feel guilty all the time." Maybe it is more along these lines: "We all have a notion of what it means to be good, and we can't live up to it all the time. - Paul Kalanithi
The main thing I worship is Nature ! - Laure Lacornette
The main purpose of our time is to establish God’s Kingdom on this earth. - Sunday Adelaja
Deep rooted envy is the main cause why people put you down, blame, shame, misjudge, maltreat and malign you; abusing your goodness and generosity." from the book, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul - Angelica Hopes
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing. - Nancy Astor
The main reason to love is not to find pleasure but to fill our hearts with love. - Debasish Mridha
When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don't just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the colors around the spot darker and dull. It will give the scene dramatical effects.I think the life is the same. - Hiroko Sakai
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. - Bill Cosby
From the systems point of view, it is evident that one of the main obstacles to organizational change is the largely unconscious embrace by business leaders of the mechanistic approach to management. - Fritjof Capra
The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It's work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns. - Noam Chomsky
A dam doesn't try to reason with the water. Its main purpose is to hold it still for a while. When I lecture my kids I'm doing much the same thing. I'm not trying to necessarily reason with them, just hold them still for a short while. - Spuds Crawford
After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would. - Robert Aickman
The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed. - Alfred A. Montapert
The women are always more treacherous than the men because even the main reason behind a cheating man is also often a woman only. - Anuj Somany
A person is thinking creature. His/Her main power of effect is in his/her thoughts. - Anastasia Novyh "Allatra"
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for? - J.M. Coetzee
The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights) - Robert Silverberg
In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of my work. - Sara Sheridan
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. - Hunter S. Thompson
In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success. - M.F. Moonzajer
As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness. - Gloria D. Gonsalves
Everyday, everytime we cant be happy, we cant keep smiling. Sometime smile may lost or something depress us. But this is the main challenge to bring smile back and stay happy everytime... - Pinkeyriko
The main thing in life is not to be afraid to be human. - Pablo Casals
Do you want to give a special gift in the New Year to someone you love? Then let him or her realize this: We are the main shepherd of our fate, we are the main designer of our destiny! - Mehmet Murat ildan
We are racing down Main Street. Arthur is right on the tail of a blck sedan with tinted windows that won't pull over. He slams the horn."Arthur," I say.The car doesn't yield."Arthur," I say.He hits the horn again, still close on the car's bummper."Arthur, our turn was back there. - Peter Canning
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