Sentence examples for main thing but from inspiring English sources

Money might be the main thing, but there's the experience of meeting people.

Such is the nature of politics, in which winning, as Vince Lombardi said in another context, is not the main thing but the only thing.

"Well, I'd thought, fine, as long as lots of children read and enjoy the books, that's the main thing, but it is a lovely surprise," she says.

Maybe finally – I've been foreign secretary for a year and a half now – it's perhaps no longer the main thing, but it's still right up there".

His papers and books, of course, are the main thing, but in recent years Krugman has also spent a great deal of time distilling his views into an undergraduate textbook.

"The sensitivity is the main thing, but it's very simple gestures, like on a smart-phone.

Scientific rigor and relevance are the main things but writing matters, too.

But the main thing that makes "Hunted" a slick but not especially riveting show is its construction.

That's one side of things but the main thing is their lack of skill and ability, which is more worrying for me.

Those are all generic things, but my main thing is that I need to never get tired of talking to you.

Asked about it, Yuval Steinitz, Israel's minister of strategic affairs, said, "The main thing is not procedures but substance".