Chiefly Quotes

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Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry deals chiefly with whole numbers. — Max Planck
I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations,… — Jawaharlal Nehru
BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it… — Ambrose Bierce
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation. — Percival Lowell
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral… — Henry David Thoreau
I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or… — Henry David Thoreau
The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched… — C.S. Lewis
The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages.… — Thomas De Witt Talmage
What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily… — Alexis de Tocqueville
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. — Thomas Hardy
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for… — William Hazlitt
Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. — Erica Jong
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. — John Maynard Keynes
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. — Charles Lamb
It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads. — Richard Leakey
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. — Marilyn Monroe
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. — Iris Murdoch
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of… — Howard Nemerov

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