Chiefs Quotes · Page 20

On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.

— Anonymous

Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace…

— Jonathan Edwards

The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

— Helen Keller

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

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

— John Dryden

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

(Carmine Crocco) A farm-labourer and cowherd, had joined the Bourbon army, killed a comrade in a brawl, deserted and lived as an…

— Eric Hobsbawm

Most of the 50 or so invitations you receive each week come from people inviting the President's Chief of Staff, not you.…

— Donald Rumsfeld

Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd…

— William Shakespeare

Ask any real estate broker to name the three most important factors in buying a property, and he'll say: "Location, location, location."…

— Dave Barry

I don't mean to sugarcoat the figure on restatements, but I think it is positive - it shows a healthy system. The…

— Steve Odland

War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning,…

— Barbara Holland

When you say "bank," a bank is a building, a set of computers and chairs and things. The bankers are the people…

— Michael Hudson

I once played the chief part in a rather exciting business without ever once budging from London . And the joke of…

— John Buchan

People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of…

— Alexandra Fuller

I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised…

— Eddie Adams

I am ready to talk today. I have been in a great many councils, but I am no wiser. We are all…

— Chief Joseph

What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest…

— Hector Tobar

It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play…

— Henry Stephens Salt

There's no doubt that I really have a feeling for the theater. These past few days it has occurred to me to…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant…

— Eric Hoffer

The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and…

— Northrop Frye

I think [ chief organizer of the Democratic Party ] it's something that I have an interest in.

— Barack Obama

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

— Don Herold

And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, "O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief.

— James Weldon Johnson

I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff…

— Shaquille O'Neal

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

— Edith Wharton

The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

— Virginia Woolf

One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of…

— George MacDonald

There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our…

— Christiaan Huygens

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

President O[bama] talks the talk and then walks a completely different walk. I would call him the divider-in-chief.

— Eric Bolling

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

— Anonymous

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

— Benjamin Graham

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.

— Barry Goldwater