Chiefs Quotes
882 quotes by 646 authors
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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
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[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
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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
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[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
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race,…
— Alexander Pope
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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
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Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.
— Richard N. Haass
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One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.
— Norbert Wiener
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The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
— Jacques Barzun
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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
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Drivers are pretty well set, but crew chiefs, they change their business cards like they change their pants.
— Chad Knaus
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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
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The trial of Enron chiefs Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay began four-and-a-half years after perpetrating -- allegedly -- the fraud that led to the second…
— Jon Stewart
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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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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
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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
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When you labor for your brother you always get the chief reward yourself.
— Francis M. Lyman
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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
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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
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Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
— Samuel Johnson
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