The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American… — Howard Fineman Copy Share Image
Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
Most of the 50 or so invitations you receive each week come from people inviting the President's Chief of Staff, not you.… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness,… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is… — Henry L. Stimson Copy Share Image
My chief concern is to make clear the Truth which I have attained, to give an understanding of the Truth, which is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
National security adviser is not a position that requires confirmation. This is a pick that like [Donald Trump] Chief of Staff, he… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Humanitarianism needs no apology, even when its objects are Russians or Communists. Unless we recover that concern and feel it toward all… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. — William James Copy Share Image
Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders… — Joe Greene Copy Share Image
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than… — William James Copy Share Image
If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. No, I haven't deteriorated… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image