Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
A fact rarely suspected, let alone understood, is that businessmen are by no means the chief beneficiaries of the free market, private… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite… — Fred Barnes Copy Share Image
Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace.....Treat all men alike. Give them… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The next big decision [of Donald Trump], chief of staff. And the two names talked about the most, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus.… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end… — William Booth Copy Share Image
See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the United States is that when it comes to world affairs, the president obviously is the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The [chief] characteristic of Hitler's leadership [was] his over-estimation of the power of the will. [To win the war] this will had… — Erich von Manstein Copy Share Image
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. — Jack Adams Copy Share Image
The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
A dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Religion, which true policy befriends, Designed by God to serve man's noblest ends, Is by that old deceiver's subtle play Made the… — Katherine Philips Copy Share Image
What we need to do is ensure that we don't create an environment that puts us on a track conceivably where the… — John R. Allen Copy Share Image
When you say "bank," a bank is a building, a set of computers and chairs and things. The bankers are the people… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image