Quotes About Principal

Henry Chinaski, the principal said over the microphone. And I walked forward. There was no applause. The one kindly soul in the audience gave two or three clasps.

his tract The Road to Survival (1948), the first modern we're-all-going-to-hell book. Road was meant as a warning bell, based on objective science, but it was also an implicit vision of how we should live: a moral testament. Vogt was the first to put together, in modern form, the principal tenets of environmentalism, the twentieth century's only successful, long-lasting ideology.

Sky provided the only drama, and counting on a Cincinnati horizon for life's principal joy was reckless indeed.

Sky provided the only drama, and counting on a Cincinnati horizon for life's principal joy was reckless indeed. So

You know the Wicked Witch of Tenth Street? - Ananka's mother, to Principal Wickham

Miss Strike. It's nice to see you again. It looks as if you turned out to be dangerous after all." "You remember." Kiki was impressed. "I would never forget a student," said Principal Wickham. "Particularly one with such unusual ambitions.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.

I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down.

The second class status of marriage became one of the principal issues in the Reformation. Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar, had barely posted his ninety-five theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg when he took himself a wife.

Hamilton used the sinking fund to maintain the confidence of creditors in the government's securities; he had no intention of paying off the outstanding principal of the debt. Retiring the debt would only destroy its usefulness as money and as a means of attaching investors to the federal government.

The propagandist naturally cannot reveal the true intentions of the principal for whom he acts... That would be to submit the projects to public discussion, to the scrutiny of public opinion, and thus to prevent their success... Propaganda must serve instead as a veil for such projects, masking true intentions.

Even in the early stages of my career I've had to dance with principal dancers. I could have easily freaked out and got nervous, but I think that helped when it came to trying to forget I was doing a scene with Judi Dench.

literature must always be about gloom of one sort or another, on the principal that there is nothing interesting to be said about happy people.

While Sean was politically seasoned enough to put the morning's snafus behind him, and not worry overmuch that the apathetic bunch he'd just talked to represented America's future voters, it was the high school principal's long-winded enthusiasm, telling Sean how much of an inspiration he was for these kids, that truly set Sean's teeth on edge. And made him even later for the final meeting of the day, the coral reef advisory panel.

The principal: You're a smart girl, so I'm going to be blunt. I think you'd be a lot happier if you stopped acting so weird. Me: Who says I'm not happy?

because the water was deep and blue and chilly. The men of the fleet might have seen whales because this was the principal breeding site

Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.

Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not that the mind is overwhelmed and drowned in body. For the principal attribute of the Gods, without or within us, is mind.

Actually, I liked the principal's office. It was interesting to see the teachers come and go, talking about what they would have for lunch or what they had done the night before just as if they were normal people. I

Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not at all our task to descend to the level of the "working masses."

Happy is the small business that can hire additional employees besides the proprietor; rare is the indie-film enterprise that can be happy in this way. The norm is an unpaid principal with no employees between productions.

Brugha argued against ambushes, preferring what Deasy termed 'straight fights'. He wanted the ambushers to call on the Auxiliaries or Tans to surrender before fire was opened. The Cork OCs pointed out that if they did this they would be robbed of their principal weapon, surprise, which they badly needed against a numerically superior and more heavily armed enemy.

Chris is the principal co-author of the genre-redefining six-volume work Modernist Cuisine.