The chief ability of an executive should be his ability to recognize ability. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately,… — George Leef Copy Share Image
Gene Roberts, one of Malcolm's X chiefs of security, was an NYPD undercover cop. He later went on to bigger things by… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Hillary Rodham Clinton was America's chief diplomat. So let's look around at the violence and danger in our world today in every… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
Tailor's work--the finishing of men's outside garments--was the "trade" learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s],and one or more… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
I didn't become CM on 07-10-2001. I have always been CM, I am CM today and shall be CM forever. For me… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
What is also true is that partly because my docket was really full here, so I couldn't be both chief organizer of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the chief sources of danger....Every… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We all cry out that the world is corrupt,--and I fear too justly,--but we never reflect, what we have to thank for… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of… — William Temple Copy Share Image
