Chiefs Quotes · Page 10

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

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

— Ben Okri

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

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

— Nelson Rockefeller

God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself.

— Edward Bouverie Pusey

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

— Hippocrates

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

— Anonymous

President O[bama] talks the talk and then walks a completely different walk. I would call him the divider-in-chief.

— Eric Bolling

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change,

— Richard Rorty

Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

[It] is indispensable that some provision should be made for defending the Community agst [against] the incapicity, negligence or perfidy of the…

— James Madison

The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our…

— Martin Luther

I trust Hillary Clinton as president and commander in chief, but the thought of Donald Trump as commander in chief scares me…

— Tim Kaine

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes,…

— Isaac Watts

Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation,…

— Alice S Rossi

Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to…

— Eric Gill

“So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately…

— Samuel Johnson

If a brand wants to build social communities, capital and influence, it must become the chief celebrant of its community, not its…

— Simon Mainwaring

At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will…

— Warren Buffett

A fact rarely suspected, let alone understood, is that businessmen are by no means the chief beneficiaries of the free market, private…

— Leonard Read

The starting-point and chief principle of every science, and hence of theology also, is not only methodical doubt, but positive doubt. One…

— Georg Hermes

There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been…

— Robert Hooke

The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the…

— Eric Hoffer

My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose,…

— Fanny Kemble

The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a…

— Carl Sagan

[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon…

— Terry Eagleton

A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how…

— Vernon Howard

There's definitely a sense of responsibility and it's something I take very seriously. It's an honor. There's pressure, but that's a good…

— Austin Dillon

There is one antidote for evil passions: the purification of our souls which takes place through the mystery of godliness. The chief…

— Gregory of Nyssa

America needs a Commander in Chief, not a Global Community Organizer.

— Liz Cheney

Achieving it is not only the chief means of adding to your regular duties.

— Doug Larson

Of all needs a book has, the chief need is to be readable.

— Anthony Trollope

Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.

— Swami Vivekananda

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

— Bertrand Russell

Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.

— Scott Walker