Chiefs Quotes
882 Chiefs quotes by 646 unique authors
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The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready…
— Arnold Bennett
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Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk,…
— Charles Dickens
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The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail…
— Dean Koontz
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Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
— Groucho Marx
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Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is…
— Harlan Ellison
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Chief of security : They have a tank! How did they get a tank up here?
— Eoin Colfer
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The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to…
— Woody Allen
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Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless…
— Anne Bronte
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Former police chief of Houston once said of me: “Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign…
— Frank Abagnale
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While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot…
— C.S. Lewis
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MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.
— Marilyn Monroe
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Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers,…
— Ray Bradbury
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Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a…
— Aristotle
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The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time…
— Thomas More
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Be the chief but never the lord.
— Laozi
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If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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