Chiefs Quotes
882 quotes by 646 authors
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Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy sideThy every action let the goddess guide.
— Phillis Wheatley
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On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it…
— Arnold Bennett
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Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the…
— P D Ouspensky
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The State, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody. The Forgotten Man works…
— William Graham Sumner
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The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I'm here with Howard Millar and Michael Cawley, our two deputy chief executives. But they're presently making love in the gentleman's toilets, such is their…
— Michael O'Leary
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I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and…
— George Sand
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To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to…
— Virginia Woolf
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Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.
— Fred F. Fielding
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Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema…
— Russell Kirk
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... the world of nature is by no means absent from the eschatological program set out in the NT. While rarely rising to the level…
— Douglas J. Moo
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You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.
— David Cottrell
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We will maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hardskew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our…
— David Weber
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One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical testing, to find…
— Chris Hadfield
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A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.
— Jane Austen
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Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and…
— Avi Arad
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