Chief Quotes

993 quotes by 746 authors

We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what?… — Meg Whitman
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. — Aristotle
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in… — Cliff Stearns
The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty. — Nelson Rockefeller
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. — Bernard Law Montgomery
I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief. — Sitting Bull
Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man. — Marcus Aurelius
Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through… — Mao Zedong
I am like a chief. I like to taste the food. If it tastes bad, I don't serve it. I'm constantly monitoring what we do,… — Charles R. Schwab
Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there… — Richard Widmark
[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from… — Fisher Ames
The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy… — Millicent Fawcett
[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic -… — Winston Churchill
The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be nominally the same… — Alexander Hamilton
Television was our chief tool in selling our policy. — Richard N. Haass
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics. — Norbert Wiener
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. — Jacques Barzun
One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the… — James Clerk Maxwell
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you… — Daniel Dennett
Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge made that critical leap from 'be afraid' to 'be very afraid,' raising the terrorist threat level to orange for financial… — Jon Stewart

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