Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent… — Peter Ackroyd 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
Essentially Rumsfeld wins, Cheney wins, and the CIA and State Department lose. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have more centralized control over intelligence,… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the last four days I have got the spectrum given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Nickel, Cobalt, and Copper and part… — Henry Moseley Copy Share Image
The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception. — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be commander in chief for three more critical… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
Chief Justice Roberts has expressly said that the Constitution and the government should be colorblind, he sees no difference between government action… — Erwin Chemerinsky Copy Share Image
The chief support of an autocracy is a standing army. The chief support of a democracy is an educated people. — Lotus Coffman Copy Share Image
A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
I will be as careful as I can in making the most significant decisions any president and commander-in-chief can make about sending… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and… — Tyler Drumheller Copy Share Image
I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we… — Black Kettle Copy Share Image
Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
I was pleased to see that Chief Justice [John] Roberts refused to prejudge issues or make promises in exchange for confirmation votes.… — Jon Kyl Copy Share Image