A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers,… — James Wolfe Copy Share Image
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice. — Don Herold Copy Share Image
As commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend America. But in defending America, we cannot lose what America stands for. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower. — Robert Fuller Murray Copy Share Image
We need a president who will lead with a stronger, more consistent foreign policy. We also need our commander in chief to… — Lee Zeldin Copy Share Image
I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to… — Venus Williams 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
The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . .… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
President [Barack] Obama did put together a task force on 21st Century Policing, led by Philadelphia police chief Charles Ramsey, to look… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
The sentiment that is very inappropriately named equality is fresh, strong, alert, precisely because it is not, in fact, a sentiment of… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Moving fashion used to be one of my chief goals. It's not necessarily any more. Fashion needs to change when life changes.… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer. — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely,… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite… — Joe Lhota Copy Share Image
It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular; but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image