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

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

- Guy Ritchie

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

Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal, who was making a different movie. The Super Bowl was going to be playing at this bar at midnight, so we decided we would go watch the Super Bowl at this bar at midnight in Prague together.

- Edie McClurg

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

- Edwin Moses

In most countries, you have a monarch or some other principal person to whom its officers and its military swear their allegiance. Our officials in this country and our military swear allegiance to the Constitution. We say that when we say the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.

- Edwin Meese

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

- Eli Broad

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

- Edmund Burke

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

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

- Donald Rumsfeld

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

- Ambrose Bierce

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

- Chi McBride

While visiting Costa Rica, I was inspired to hear that someone had donated a playground to a local school. So when I returned to L.A., one day I just called the principal of a nearby elementary school and asked what I could do. Five years later, I've helped make over nine schools, repainting, renovating, and fixing up playgrounds.

- Cheryl Hines

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

- Charles Dance

The principal cause of war is war itself.

- C. Wright Mills

Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives when I became Chairman in February 2006.

- Ben Bernanke

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

- Alfred Doblin

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.

- Arlen Specter

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

In second grade, I told a bunch of kids there was a homeless person living between the portable classrooms outside our school. It caused panic, and the principal had to announce on the P.A. system that no one was living there. I pretended I didn't know who started the rumor.

- Alessia Cara