Quotes with main-spring

Quotes 141 till 160 of 208.

  • Nancy Astor The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.
    Nancy Astor
    First woman Member of Parliament (1879 - 1964)
    - +
     0
  • Mark Twain The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
    - +
     0
  • Rebecca West The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
    - +
     0
  • Eric Hoffer The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
    - +
     0
  • Bjorn Lomborg The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
    - +
     0
  • Konstantin Stanislavisky The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Keith The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
    - +
     0
  • Machiavelli The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Cosby The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bee Wilson The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
    - +
     0
  • George Orwell The main motive for 'nonattachment' is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • Jean Genet The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
    - +
     0
  • Thomas Hardy The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
    - +
     0
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
    - +
     0
  • Boris Yeltsin The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind of barometric chamber with an artificial atmosphere where you must stay all the time.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
    - +
     0
  • Bernard M. Baruch The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
    - +
     0
  • Florence Griffith-Joyner The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
    - +
     0
  • Alfred A. Montapert 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
    American writer
    - +
     0
  • Boris Sidis The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.
    Source: The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases (1916)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
    - +
     0
  • Will Rogers The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
    - +
     0
All main-spring famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 8)