Chiefs Quotes · Page 8

The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

— William Golding

Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.

— Thomas Brooks

All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.

— David Crosby

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

— John Locke

Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

— Viktor E. Frankl

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

— Leo Steinberg

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

— Helen Rowland

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

— Edward Abbey

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

— Don Herold

I think 'Hail to the Chief' needs a little bit fresher sound. I might put some gospel beats in 'Hail to the…

— Herman Cain

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

— Eric Hoffer

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the…

— John Dryden

Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant…

— Richard Widmark

You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.

— David Cottrell

The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.

— Pope Leo XIII

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of…

— Anonymous

The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

One of the reasons we experience so much difficulty with our gifts is that parents have thought their chief function in life…

— Elizabeth O'Connor

There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death:…

— Arthur Hopkins

The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd…

— Mark Twain

Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted…

— Peter Singer

We need a president who will lead with a stronger, more consistent foreign policy. We also need our commander in chief to…

— Lee Zeldin

President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against…

— Julianne Malveaux

When I was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I would still have junior officers brief me. Usually these people knew…

— Colin Powell

The essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities…

— H. P. Blavatsky

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power…

— Winston Churchill

Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy…

— Steve Almond

Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot; Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit, Where long ago a…

— John Keats

For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house…

— James Howard Kunstler

The principal hindrance to the advancement of the kingdom of God is greed. It is the chief obstacle to heaven-sent revival. It…

— O. S. Hawkins

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take…

— John B. Watson

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

— Anthony Trollope

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

— Oliver Goldsmith

No violence, No competition, No Groups, No Chiefs.

— Sebastien Foucan

I want to be a Chief. I want to be a Chief for life.

— Tony Gonzalez

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

— Saul Bellow

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

— Daniel Dennett

Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.

— Anonymous

My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends,

— Christopher Hitchens