There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville. – Hernan Cortes
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book. – Howard Gardner
The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points. – Giorgio Napolitano
Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them. – James E. Faust
What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that’s akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime – terror. – Anish Kapoor
Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives when I became Chairman in February 2006. – Ben Bernanke
All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs. – Andrew Fletcher
The two principal parks in Alaska are Denali and Glacier Bay. Tourism is just overriding the protection of resources that tourists want to see. We have too many tourists in Denali and too many big cruise ships in Glacier Bay. – Michael Frome
My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh. – Nikos Kazantzakis
The Lord’s authorized servants repeatedly teach that one of the principal purposes of our mortal existence is to be spiritually changed and transformed through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. – David A. Bednar
Everything is expressed through relationship. Colour can exist only through other colours, dimension through other dimensions, position through other positions that oppose them. That is why I regard relationship as the principal thing. – Piet Mondrian
I’m playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence. – Charles Dance
History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees. – Norman Davies
In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions. – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive. – Michael Shermer
The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets. – Mark Zandi
The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism. – Christian Lous Lange
Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration. – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers. – E. O. Wilson
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants. – Franz Liszt
The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means… Its effectiveness depends on distinctiveness, visibility, adaptability, memorability, universality, and timelessness. – Paul Rand
The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can. – Moses Mendelssohn
The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time. – John Pearson
Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign. – Josiah Strong
The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school – not for who I was but for what I did there. – Ram Charan
