Chiefs Quotes

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The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world â€”â€”- the cowboy songs of Texas and the… — J. Frank Dobie
I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it. — Carl Nielsen
The chief contribution of such a radically new and more powerful instrument would be, not to supplement our present ideas of the universe we live… — Lyman Spitzer
Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us, he… — John F. Kennedy
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the… — Walter Lippmann
Security is the chief enemy of mortals. — William Shakespeare
Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief… — Cynthia Ozick
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every… — John Ruskin
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. — H. L. Mencken
The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he… — Aaron Allston
...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower. — Robert Fuller Murray
The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues. — Philibert Joseph Roux
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it. — George MacDonald
The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe… — Charles Dudley Warner
Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with the… — Joseph Campbell
The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he… — Gilbert Highet
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the… — William Jennings Bryan
We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us. — Rebecca Harding Davis

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