Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian. — Mack McLarty Copy Share Image
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity. — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and… — Tyler Drumheller Copy Share Image
Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand.… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The American official was trying to talk about aid and development projects and finally a local tribal chief got up and said,… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
The chief difference between me and others is that I have plenty of time not only because I am without a multitude… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Clinton's team used a technology called BleachBit, which is basically acid, and this is going to acid wash her emails. Who would… — Donald Trump 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
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us… — Paul Hellyer Copy Share Image
In Freethinkers Hall, which before the Nazi resurgence was the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, the Berlin Protestant church authorities… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
[Police chiefs ] want support, they want more training, they want more assistance. And I think the federal government could be in… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The hardest thing for a chief executive to do is to tell someone that they don't have a job anymore. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The chief support of an autocracy is a standing army. The chief support of a democracy is an educated people. — Lotus Coffman Copy Share Image
Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as… — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end.… — Roy Keane Copy Share Image
Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation. — Peter Forsyth Copy Share Image
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day. — Fred F. Fielding Copy Share Image
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love...… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
I can tell you is all nine of the people here [on debates] would make an infinitely better commander in chief than… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
You want to be commander-in-chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Donald Trump would be a chaos president. He would not be the commander in chief we need to keep our country safe. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image