So, then, what is style? There are two chief aspects of any piece of writing: 1) what you say and 2) how… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If Barack Obama cannot appreciate that our troops are winning in Iraq, he should not be their Commander in Chief. — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Well, the most important thing a president will be is commander-in-chief. And that requires having an understanding of the complex issues on… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy… — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work… — David Cook Copy Share Image
It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
To some I am known as Chief. And these are usually people who work in Radio Shack or try to sell me… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
No artist's masterpiece can match a mother's creation of a successful child, one who has been freed to explore and to grow.… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
National security advisors, like White House Chiefs of Staff, their job generally if they're - if they're competent and qualified and effective… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The Bush Administration, and particularly Bush's chief political strategist and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, have been expert in both galvanizing… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Chief Justice's ... main point seemed to be that the references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance aren't really religious… — Ed Buckner Copy Share Image
There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study;… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism. — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
The chief thing is to love others likeyourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power. — Jimmie Johnson Copy Share Image
Part of the issue around communal land, which became a matter of controversy, is that we are saying that this land must… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice -… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He gets the… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
National security adviser is not a position that requires confirmation. This is a pick that like [Donald Trump] Chief of Staff, he… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
When you kneel in prayer, don't give God orders, just report to your Commander in Chief for duty. — Michael Catt Copy Share Image
Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
At bottom each “exact” science is, and must be speculative, and its chief tool of research, too rarely used with both courage… — Reginald Aldworth Daly Copy Share Image
Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to… — Derek Wilson Copy Share Image