Chief Quotes

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A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's… — James Wolfe
There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate… — Adam Weishaupt
What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects… — Joseph Sobran
The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life. — Lane Kirkland
Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that GodÂ infuses joy and resilience… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are. — Ramana Maharshi
When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy… — Adam Clymer
Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours. — William Cowper
I have broken all ties that bind me to the (U.S.) Army, not suddenly, impulsively, but conscientiously and after due deliberation. I sacrifice more to… — Edmund Kirby Smith
The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super',… — Aron Nimzowitsch
The main difference between the art of the actor and all other arts is that every other [non-performing] artist may create whenever he is in… — Constantin Stanislavski
At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one. — Malcolm Forbes
The chief support of an autocracy is a standing army. The chief support of a democracy is an educated people. — Lotus Coffman
The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then they guide the horse with loose reins and… — Sandra Day O'Connor
It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation… — Herbert Hoover
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it. — Jean Grou
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness… — Eric Gill
Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail. — Helen Keller
Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce. — Larry Gelbart

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