The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W.… — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York. — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. — Edward F. Hennessey Copy Share Image
Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have high respect for the Chief Justice and the institution he represents. But, I equally demand respect to the institution I… — Juan Ponce Enrile Copy Share Image
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be commander in chief for three more critical… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru It is not so much… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“NOTICE Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He was a great president in his first term; in his second term, he wasn't the same Grover Cleveland he was to… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The truth then is, that the Russian Comintern is still confessedly engaged in endeavoring to foment war in order to facilitate revolution,… — Denis Fahey Copy Share Image
The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in… — Erich von Manstein Copy Share Image
Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Donald Trump poses a serious threat to America, based on what he has said. He is unqualified to be president and he… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
We pray as if God’s chief objective is our personal comfort. It’s not. God’s chief objective is His glory. — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
I've met with a group of very distinguished, experienced police chiefs a few weeks ago. They admit it's an issue. They've got… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef. — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
The role at the DCCC as well as the role of chief deputy whip - I wouldn't be where I am in… — Joseph Crowley Copy Share Image
Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA. — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Looking back, my life so far seems like one long obstacle race, with me as its chief obstacle. — Jack Paar Copy Share Image
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
We cannot promote someone to Commander-in-Chief who has made the world a more violent and dangerous place with every bad judgment Hillary… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is just unfit, unprepared, just doesn't get it, shouldn't be the commander in chief of America. — Julian Castro Copy Share Image