Chief Quotes

993 quotes by 746 authors

I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour. — Ani DiFranco
Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away from the storm… — Donna Brazile
When you labor for your brother you always get the chief reward yourself. — Francis M. Lyman
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we… — Hermann Weyl
In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right… — Leo Tolstoy
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature. — Samuel Johnson
I wasnt privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from… — E. Howard Hunt
Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA. — Steve Largent
I am ready to talk today. I have been in a great many councils, but I am no wiser. We are all sprung from a… — Chief Joseph
The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation. — Freeman Tilden
Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. — Rebecca Harding Davis
The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants. — Henry David Thoreau
But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national… — Don Nickles
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My… — George Bernard Shaw
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and increasingly; the fear… — John Betjeman
No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was certainly not a… — Pauline Gower
When the Commander-in-Chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do things that would… — Ronald Reagan
The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq - one of its largest trading partners - for years,… — Jonah Goldberg

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