There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family… — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners. — Joseph Lowery Copy Share Image
Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them. — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge. — Baruch Spinoza 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
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency!… — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it (life), whether it is of the devil or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I actually had that conversation with [Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer] Jay Hunt. We were at a bit of a crisis point.… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
God gives you opportunities and I'm thankful that the Chiefs gave me this opportunity. I'm very grateful to be on this team.… — Justin Cole Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, -… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his… — John Locke Copy Share Image
For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I have had much pleasure in working with Orphei Drängar during my time as chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and… — Neeme Jarvi Copy Share Image
So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Nonetheless, GAO's conclusion that employer sanctions had somehow caused employment discrimination was contradicted by GAO's own Chief of Methodology, who criticized the… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
During the debate, Palin winked, wrinkled her nose, and gave a shout-out to a third-grade class. Well, you know, that says commander-in-chief… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject,… — Adam Clymer Copy Share Image
I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate. — George Washington Copy Share Image
As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human. — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and,… — Bernard of Clairvaux 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
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy,… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also… — Mark Potok Copy Share Image
If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out… — Bob Riley Copy Share Image
Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit… — Kate Middleton Copy Share Image
I like being... in Kansas City. People are extremely nice, extremely passionate about the Chiefs. — Patrick Mahomes Copy Share Image
![“I actually had that conversation with [Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer] Jay Hunt. We were at a bit of a crisis point. I'd written a totally different script - about war, basically - that got rejected at the last minute for various reasons. The whole of the series was in doubt. I said, "Well…” quote by Charlie Brooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/154/charlie-brooker-1392_anthem_i-actually-had-that-conversation-with-ch_2363967.png)
![“FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!” quote by Christopher Marlowe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/637/christopher-marlowe-3449_arms_faustus-stabbing-his-arm-lo-mephistophil_998168.jpg)
