#prima

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#autonomy #beyond #culture #environmental #function

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#god #him #holy #others #our

He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#animal #form #indeed #life #material

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches. ↗

— Kate Smith

#before #bless #committee #democratic #during

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#among #christian #christian church #church #encouraged

I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#actor #am #camera #girl #i

I always have a lot of personal goals, but primarily my main goal each year is to obviously win a Super Bowl. ↗

— Michael Strahan

#bowl #each #goal #goals #i

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#dance #just #like #primal #something

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#best #common #imagination #over #primacy

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#conversation #establishing #language #most #negotiating