| "One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must live it to the full." »Muriel Spark |
| "I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was prime Minister than when anyone else was prime Minister. That is a political statistic." »Winston Churchill |
| "The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking." »Louis Vermeil |
| "Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur." »Muriel Spark |
| "Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue..." »Anonymous |
| "To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward." »Margaret Fairless Barber |
| "I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out. (To prime Minister Harold Wilson)" »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)" »Shimon Peres |
| "Damn it, Pierre, what do you want me to do We'll go sit with empty chairs to get those guys back to the table. (To Pierre Trudeau, prime minister of Canada)" »Ronald Reagan |
| "I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness." »Brenda Ueland |
| "In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds." »Aristotle |
| "The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs. Jews use it against other Jews. Even the president of the United States, it seems, can use it against the prime minister of Israel." »David K. Shipler |
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