Chief Quotes

993 quotes by 746 authors

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the… — Gaston Bachelard
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or… — J. G. Ballard
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. — Joseph Addison
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. — Alfred Adler
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him… — Joe Biden
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. — Hugh Blair
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets… — William Blake
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. — H. P. Blavatsky
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. — Napoleon Bonaparte
As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in… — Christopher Bond
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. — Andre Breton
When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The… — Geraldine Brooks
Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age. — James Buchan
A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at… — Herb Caen
I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief. — Fidel Castro
The home is the chief school of human virtues. — William Ellery Channing
I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously… — Dick Cheney

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