Chief Quotes
993 quotes by 746 authors
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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
— Hannah Arendt
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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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
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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
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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
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
— Alfred Adler
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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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
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Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
— Hugh Blair
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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
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The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
— Andre Breton
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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
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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
— James Buchan
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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
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
— Fidel Castro
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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
— William Ellery Channing
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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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