My Chief Quotes
34 quotes by 30 authors
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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
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Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.
— Thomas Hooker
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My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends,
— Christopher Hitchens
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My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble.
— Yousuf Karsh
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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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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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
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I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
— Carl Nielsen
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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
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Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.
— Conrad Black
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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
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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
Who Wrote These My Chief Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 34 My Chief Quotes, led by these top contributors: