Existence, it seems, is chiefly maintenance.

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.

— Cole Younger

We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place,…

— John Woolman

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

— Eric Hoffer

I like to write about a lot of things, which is why my books are different. This is probably why I don't like to…

— Katherine Paterson

I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly…

— Rosemary Mahoney

In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee…

— Paul Revere

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step…

— Neil Strauss

If you go into an underground train in London - probably anywhere, but chiefly in London - there's that sense of almost entering a…

— Seamus Heaney

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.

— St Francis De Sales

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to…

— Patrick White

In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in…

— Alice Morse Earle

Packing is chiefly planning -- if it is

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw…

— Stephen Kinzer

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

— Eric Hoffer

Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in…

— Saint Ambrose