Chiefs Quotes · Page 5

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

— H. L. Mencken

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

— Henry David Thoreau

The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.

— Gwen Raverat

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

— Voltaire

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples.

— John Piper

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

— Thucydides

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

— Oscar Wilde

United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end.…

— Roy Keane

The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as…

— Alister MacKenzie

The chief support of an autocracy is a standing army. The chief support of a democracy is an educated people.

— Lotus Coffman

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

— Umberto Eco

Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.

— Sathya Sai Baba

The hardest thing for a chief executive to do is to tell someone that they don't have a job anymore.

— Carly Fiorina

The State, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody. The…

— William Graham Sumner

I'm here with Howard Millar and Michael Cawley, our two deputy chief executives. But they're presently making love in the gentleman's toilets,…

— Michael O'Leary

My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it…

— Mortimer Adler

NASCAR does a good job of trying to keep things equal with new rules. We're not allowed to have computers in our…

— Jimmie Johnson

The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . .…

— Michael O'Leary

When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along…

— Lucretius

The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing,…

— Louis Sullivan

With Hillary Clinton as our commander in chief, our international relations will not be reduced to a business transaction. I also know…

— John R. Allen

Clinton's team used a technology called BleachBit, which is basically acid, and this is going to acid wash her emails. Who would…

— Donald Trump

In Freethinkers Hall, which before the Nazi resurgence was the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, the Berlin Protestant church authorities…

— Adolf Hitler

There's no doubt that I really have a feeling for the theater. These past few days it has occurred to me to…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant…

— Eric Hoffer

It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play…

— Henry Stephens Salt

I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised…

— Eddie Adams

People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of…

— Alexandra Fuller

I am ready to talk today. I have been in a great many councils, but I am no wiser. We are all…

— Chief Joseph

You are Gods chief creation, and you are here for His pleasure and His glory.

— Beth Moore

I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff.

— Aleister Crowley

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

— John Stott

The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

— Henry Ford

Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

— George Bernard Shaw

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,

— Calvin Coolidge

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

— Lewis Carroll