The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
Thomas Malthus

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.
Ray Charles

My main focus is on my game.
Tiger Woods

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
H. G. Wells

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Erich Fromm

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

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Bertrand Russell

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
Elizabeth Bowen

And the live show is still our main thing.
Jerry Garcia

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.
Paul Gascoigne

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
Stephen King

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
Ella Maillart

Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
Walter Winchell

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
Ezra Pound

Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are.
Angela Merkel