Chiefs Quotes · Page 6

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

— John Locke

The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

— William Golding

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

— Samuel Johnson

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

— Edward Abbey

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

— Anthony Trollope

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

— Helen Rowland

No violence, No competition, No Groups, No Chiefs.

— Sebastien Foucan

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since…

— Anonymous

The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.

— John Stott

I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,

— Anonymous

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

— Anonymous

The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

— Eric Hoffer

I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness…

— Anonymous

We have to separate here the church in its broad sense. We have Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox churches. The Catholic church is…

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now. I don't want to be an enabler,…

— Dean Koontz

Anti-Semitism is not based on strictly religious grounds and is not directed against the Jewish faith as such. However, all German Christians…

— Ernst Hanfstaengl

The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief…

— Horace Mann

The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is…

— Charles Horton Cooley

I intend to make America strong again. I'm going to be the champion of the middle class, where I came from. If…

— Lindsey Graham

They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they…

— Thomas Davis

I think that the only time we will really know what then-President Trump is going to do about the set of challenges…

— Samantha Power

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them…

— Calvin Coolidge

Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism,…

— Russell Kirk

The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be…

— Alexander Hamilton

For woman's chief want is to feel that she is wanted. Therefore it is that with women, cruelty is more easily borne…

— Arnold Haultain

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead…

— A. B. Simpson

He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe…

— Jack London

I want to be a Chief. I want to be a Chief for life.

— Tony Gonzalez

My most important title is still “mom-in-chief.

— Michel'le

The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.

— Claude Lelouch

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

— Ben Okri

The chief end for which Christ lived and died: To provide eternal redemption for sinners.

— J. C. Ryle

I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.

— Carl Nielsen

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

— Jack Adams

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

— Anonymous