The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and, most… — William Safire Copy Share Image
ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector," said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful.… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Buddha is the crown jewel of the Indian nation which accepts all ways of worship of all religions. This quality of Hinduism… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
I am ready to talk today. I have been in a great many councils, but I am no wiser. We are all… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
When I was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I would still have junior officers brief me. Usually these people knew… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
The only sin I think a commander in chief can make is exaggerating successes and not understanding the challenges. — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that… — Eduard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections,… — John Eudes Copy Share Image
The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing; but it is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
