Chiefs Quotes · Page 4

Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.

— James G. Frazer

...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower.

— Robert Fuller Murray

Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America.

— Jerry Falwell

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

You can't flip-flop and be commander-in-chief.

— Newt Gingrich

One can look at John McCain and say that he's not ready to be commander-in-chief.

— Rudy Giuliani

The chief al Qaeda recruiting tool is the net.

— Bill O'Reilly

If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out…

— Bob Riley

One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the…

— Robert Benchley

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

— Mack McLarty

[Police chiefs ] want support, they want more training, they want more assistance. And I think the federal government could be in…

— Hillary Clinton

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and…

— Tyler Drumheller

The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief…

— Charles Darwin

Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.

— Ernest Holmes

The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be…

— Benjamin Graham

Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power,…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Look, Chief, you can't go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn't evil. It's not a murderer. It's…

— Peter Benchley

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any…

— Anonymous

I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget,…

— John Kasich

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform,…

— Barack Obama

I got a great grandma. Her name is Pearl, and she was at one time married to an Indian chief, who, in…

— Eddie Vedder

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

I have had much pleasure in working with Orphei Drängar during my time as chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and…

— Neeme Jarvi

Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the…

— John Calvin

Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great…

— Donald E. Westlake

When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be…

— Chief Joseph

Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us…

— Paul Hellyer

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely…

— John Stuart Mill

Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

— Wyndham Lewis

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

— Conrad Black

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

— Robert Anton Wilson

The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

— John Stott

The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.

— Freeman Tilden

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.

— Albert Camus

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

— Jane Bryant Quinn

Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.

— Neil Diamond