Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. — John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby Copy Share Image
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The chief end for which He lived and died was to provide eternal redemption for mankind. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library, — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
My first job as commander in chief is to keep the American people safe. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
During the debate, Palin winked, wrinkled her nose, and gave a shout-out to a third-grade class. Well, you know, that says commander-in-chief… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject,… — Adam Clymer Copy Share Image
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The world is threatened by terrorism and violent extremism like never before. The rule of law is one of our chief defences… — Peter MacKay Copy Share Image
October 7th [2016], indeed, WikiLeaks released its whole new dump. A whole new bunch of e-mails and documents, this time from [Hillary]… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first,… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
[Former chief executives] come away thinking that America needs a strong, functioning presidency to succeed, and they become very protective of that… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information… — J. P. Guilford Copy Share Image
Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small,… — Patrick Geddes Copy Share Image
What, did you think," she asked, laughing as he struggled up the bank, "that I, a Gaulish maiden, could not swim?" "I… — G.A. Henty Copy Share Image
I've been deeply concerned that to date no individuals have been convicted for the brutal killing of three United States citizens, the… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
The range of individuality in children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the same groups. And there was… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image