It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired. — Duff McDonald Copy Share Image
I'm not a performer. If they're looking for entertainer-in-chief, I'm probably not the guy. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The national security issues are a really good window into the character of the person that somebody wants to have as commander… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study. — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's callous enjoinder 'you never want a serious crisis to go to waste'? This White House is… — Bob Tyrrell Copy Share Image
The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching… — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Copy Share Image
Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Humanitarianism needs no apology, even when its objects are Russians or Communists. Unless we recover that concern and feel it toward all… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
In the Munich agreement in late 1938 [Franklin] Roosevelt sent his chief adviser Sumner Welles, who came back with a very supportive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The truth then is, that the Russian Comintern is still confessedly engaged in endeavoring to foment war in order to facilitate revolution,… — Denis Fahey Copy Share Image
In a moment when young black voters were key to the election and the reelection of a black president, when the Department… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
The point we are making is that the general global messages have been communicated, about the politics of South Africa, about the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them… — Harvey S. Firestone Copy Share Image
The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians;… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA. — Jack Higgins Copy Share Image
A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second... — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The chief end for which He lived and died was to provide eternal redemption for mankind. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
My first job as commander in chief is to keep the American people safe. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image