My Chief Quotes

34 quotes by 30 authors

I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the… — Venus Williams
Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest. — Thomas Hooker
My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends, — Christopher Hitchens
My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble. — Yousuf Karsh
My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems. — Akio Morita
I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
Moving fashion used to be one of my chief goals. It's not necessarily any more. Fashion needs to change when life changes. You only need… — Tom Ford
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest… — Sergei Prokofiev
My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If… — Mortimer Adler
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and… — Edgar Degas
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as… — Bertrand Russell
Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee… — William Cowper
My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can. — Mary Wortley Montagu
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
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and increasingly; the fear… — John Betjeman
I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it. — Carl Nielsen
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a… — Charles Darwin
Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing. — Conrad Black
The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which. — Charles Francis Richter
I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history,… — Theodore Roosevelt

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