Chiefs Quotes · Page 7

The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.

— Nelson Rockefeller

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.

— Anonymous

Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

— Viktor E. Frankl

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

— Leo Steinberg

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

— John Locke

Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.

— Thomas Brooks

All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.

— David Crosby

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is…

— Charles Spurgeon

Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could…

— Charles Darwin

The NGOs in Israel should devote more time to monitoring religious anti-Israel groups, chief among them the so-called "Christian Palestinianists."

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

— Voltaire

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we…

— Black Kettle

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

— Mos Def

There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and…

— Woodrow Wilson

I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball…

— Wanda Sykes

And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their…

— Theresa May

The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular; but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the…

— Abraham Lincoln

Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him…

— Andy Murray

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the…

— Charles Dickens

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow…

— Ben Hecht

The chief contribution of such a radically new and more powerful instrument would be, not to supplement our present ideas of the…

— Lyman Spitzer

Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve…

— Barack Obama

It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Americans are at war with radical Islamic terrorism. We are at war with the ISIS caliphate, and what we need is a…

— Mike Pence

Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Industrial Tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are…

— Edward Abbey

It is well known that obedience is the chief among the initiatory virtues, for first it displaces presumption and then it engenders…

— Diadochos of Photiki

Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact… In Indianapolis they have come up…

— Malcolm Forbes

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

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

— Tony Gonzalez

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

— Anthony Trollope

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

— Edward Abbey

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