Main Thing Quotes

There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.
Frank B. Kellogg

War, Between, Means

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.
Wilbur Smith

Work, Good, Yourself

You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.
Josh Turner

Funny, Home, Him

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
Dan Fogelberg

Love, Laugh, Language

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.
Diane Sawyer

Time, Technology, Important

The main thing I'm into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I'm really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky.
Tom Jenkinson

End, Idea, Making

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
Ludwig von Mises

Peace, War, Enough

We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing.
Rem Koolhaas

Important, Felt, Space

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.
Jared Diamond

Hope, Learning, Books

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
Mary Richards

Faith, Help, Long

I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.
Chris Isaak

Nice, Mind, Writing

I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.
Victoria Beckham

Football, Goal, Surely

That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people.
James McAvoy

Big, Playing, Characters

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.
Tanya Tucker

Help, Main, Medication

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.
Alia Shawkat

Child, Boredom, Growing

The main thing I believe in is freedom.
Charles Evers

The main thing is that this band keeps going.
Jerry Only

Band, Keeps, Main

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

Try, Accept, Alcoholic

I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
Jack Osbourne

Getting, Read, Stuff

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
Frank McCourt

Experience, Teacher, Interested

The main thing for me is I really like strong endings. If there's a strong ending, you can take more time in the beginning, your first act can be really quite different.
Tony Gilroy

Time, Strong, Different

The main thing about Bruce Lee is that, he was a little guy. And you know, his quickness, his aggressiveness, his explosive power, you have to be a great athlete to have all these, his body, his look, you know, all these things have to do with discipline and structure. He was able to go against the biggest guy, regardless of who he was.
Evander Holyfield

Great, Power, Able

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.
John Goodman

Her, She, Story

These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.
Frank Carlucci

Encourage, Middle, East

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.
John Deacon

Music, Before, Around

Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India.
Ismail Merchant

Wanted, English, Films

We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.
Chester Brown

Money, Down, Place

In my column series 'The Main Thing,' I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.
Jim Barksdale

Business, Technology, Talk

The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
Rafer Johnson

Health, Fitness, Nice

The main thing is just really to play my game... and while you are playing the match, as it goes along, you kind of figure things out.
Mary Pierce

Game, Play, While

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