Chief Quotes

#1. Hillary Rodham Clinton was America's chief diplomat. So let's look around at the violence and danger in our world today in every region of the world that has been infected with her flawed judgment.

Chris Christie

#2. The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

Daniel Dennett

#3. Cold stabilization has these benefits, however: it gets rid of the crystals, which is nice in a cosmetic sense. It reduces the acidity slightly and softens the wine. The latter benefit is the chief one.

Jeff Cox

#4. If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

Carl Jung

#5. The author deduces the best way James Baker serve Reagan as Chief of Staff was to continually remind him why he wanted to be president.

Chris Matthews

#6. Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired.

Duff McDonald

#8. You heard my name was Chief Shouting Bear," he said. "It doesn't matter. You can call me whatever you want, Stupidlegs.

Adam Rex

#9. I'm sure the president doesn't enjoy being called deporter-in-chief.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#10. The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.

James A. Garfield

#11. I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.

Candace Bushnell

#12. He's our chief science guru. Dr.

Robert J. Crane

#13. I was interviewing an elder, Chief Fool's Crow, who was the ceremonial chief. He was 103 years old. I was getting his information on the history of Lakota horses. He told me the story of Hidalgo and Frank Hopkins.

John Fusco

#14. Holloa! Starbuck's astir," said the rigger. "He's a lively chief mate that; good man, and a pious; but

Herman Melville

#15. The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#16. My object is to show that the chief function of the child
his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life
is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses ...

Charlotte M. Mason

#17. People like to say the West is a guilt-based culture, while that of Japan is based on shame, with the chief distinction being that the former is an internalized emotion while the latter depends on the presence of a group. But

Barry Eisler

#18. What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

James M. Barrie

#19. Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans how to have Jesus executed

Ademola Adejumo

#20. Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#21. Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.

Jonathan Edwards

#22. I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#23. Did you pull rank?" "On a chief warrant officer?" They'd reached the link, and he slapped the call button. "Do I look suicidal?

Tanya Huff

#24. At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.

Zebulon Pike

#25. As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome!

Tom Peters

#26. The Uberlingen Chief of Police Jakob Graf, was severely wounded in this explosion. It has now become questionable as to whether the weapons he collected were for the Gestapo or the invading French troops.

Hank Bracker

#27. There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.

Roger Bacon

#28. Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

C. Everett Koop

#29. Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.

John Of Salisbury

#30. One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Voltaire

#31. My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.

Henry Mintzberg

#32. I saw that I had followed the chief guiding principle of the petty bourgeoisie in modernity and made a virtue of necessity in telling myself my husband was a good lover.

Nell Zink

#33. What the Nazis themselves claimed to be their chief discovery - the role of the Jewish people in world politics - and their chief interest - persecution of Jews all over the world - have been regarded by public opinion as a pretext for winning the masses or an interesting device of demagogy.

Hannah Arendt

#34. The chief arena in which we serve God is the vocation of our everyday lives. At the same time, as we see here, God also calls us to go beyond and meet needs wherever they are as we have opportunity to do so. The

Matt Perman

#35. Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

Richard Steele

#36. As the state's chief law enforcement officer, it's my job to see that perpetrators of fraud are brought to justice.

Eric Schneiderman

#37. Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.

Ravi Zacharias

#38. Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don't need to care about science, literature or peace.

Stephen Colbert

#39. The home is the chief school of human virtues.

William Ellery Channing

#40. Chief Justice Roberts is somebody I work with, somebody I admire, Justice Alito someone I knew when he was U.S. attorney, also admire.

Rudy Giuliani

#41. I asked Chief Justice John Roberts about this definition of life - you know, what is life? The Supreme Court can't figure it out or doesn't want us to figure it out; the fact that we know that there is no life if there's no heartbeat and brainwaves.

Tom Coburn

#42. The chief vestige of subjectivity is the fallacy that everybody else also cares about the same things as the observer, and/or lives in his/her exact same state of mind

Stephan Attia

#43. I carried out my plan because I felt The Chief had some fear of those of my race, of those uncountable forebears whose culmination lies in me. I wished to prove to him that a yellow man could save his armies.

Jorge Luis Borges

#44. Who is going to pay a day's wage to slide down a damn tongue?
The Chief, Swamplandia

Karen Russell

#45. President means chief servant

Mahatma Gandhi

#46. The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Joseph Addison

#47. Not to give away the woman one loved, but to back her up in her mistakes
once they had gone a certain length
that was perhaps chief among the inevitabilities of the abjection of love.

Henry James

#48. What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more:

William Shakespeare

#49. My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#50. The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.

Thomas Keating

#51. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Bertrand Russell

#52. You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

Boethius

#53. Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Arthur Schopenhauer

#54. There was a point in time, when I put out the Chief Keef diss, where I was so hot that everybody was calling my phone. But I decided to go set up under Wale, but he wasn't really teaching me how to rap.

Shy Glizzy

#55. The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one.

Ralph Raico

#56. Don't worry, chief. We've got these Tualaghi surrounded - from the inside."
"Exactly," Erak replied dryly.

John Flanagan

#57. Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#58. The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

Lewis Carroll

#59. When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been 'lost' or stolen.

Joe Biden

#60. Gratitude is my chief erotic emotion.

Edmund White

#61. Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.

Isaac D'Israeli

#62. One must speak little. In action one must say nothing. The chief is the one who does not speak.

Charles De Gaulle

#63. But the editor in chief was already balding and worked a lot. He was at the mercy of his family and apartment. He enjoyed lying down on the couch for a spell after dinner and reading Pravda before bed.

Ilya Ilf

#64. The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

Horatio Nelson

#65. I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

Dan Quayle

#66. If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top head Mason of the World, you will discover that the dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Superior General of the Jesuit Order] are one and the same person.

James Parton

#67. The Christian Miracle's chief disclosure is this: the Creator of the universe is not at war with us. Neither is his favor for sale; no number of brownie points can possibly buy it. God loves us freely and unconditionally.

Michael Guillen

#68. The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.

Arthur L. Herman

#69. Since free men cannot judge for themselves what endangers their freedom if they believe it is never in danger, it is the chief burden of the public school curriculum to persuade children that their liberty is always secure.

Walter Karp

#70. This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

Marcus Aurelius

#71. A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#72. If I had campaigned for it, Arvind Kejriwal would have become the chief minister of Delhi.

Kisan Baburao Hazare

#73. The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#74. The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

Manfred Von Richthofen

#75. Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that God infuses joy and resilience into the daily struggle of life.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#76. 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 in, but rather to uncover new phenomena not yet imagined, and perhaps modify profoundly our basic concepts of space and time.

Lyman Spitzer

#77. 'Many waters cannot quench love' was said of divine, not human, love, which the Dean knew was not always tough enough to survive the indifference of misery. That was one of the chief reasons why he struggled to do away with misery.

Elizabeth Goudge

#78. As Chief Luthuli said, 'When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.

Nelson Mandela

#79. I listen to him [Chief Keef] the most. I like his older mixtapes a little better though, because old Chief Keef scared me - I thought he was about to pop up out of nowhere with a hoodie on and shoot me.

Danny Brown

#80. I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

Narendra Modi

#81. Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

Umberto Eco

#82. Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them (Frank Moore Colby)

Colin Dexter

#83. President O[bama] talks the talk and then walks a completely different walk. I would call him the divider-in-chief.

Eric Bolling

#84. Mutter Erde ist keine Maschine
Henry Red Cloud is the direct 5th generation descendant of Chief Red Cloud

Henry Red Cloud

#85. I feel very privileged indeed to be appointed to be the next Chief Rabbi.

Ephraim Mirvis

#86. If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts!

Jack Welch

#87. The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.

H.L. Mencken

#88. Also," droned Helen, "Dr. Clinton Clark, Chief of Gynecology called, not his secretary, the doctor himself. And he sounded very angry. He wants you to call. And Mr. Drake wants a call too." The printout

Robin Cook

#89. Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up.

Ruth Reichl

#90. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and execution of business.

Francis Bacon

#91. Strange it was that the British commander-in-chief, known for his chronic gambling, seemed to give no thought to how his American opponent might play his hand. O

David McCullough

#92. on the armor shut behind him, cutting the master chief off for a moment as the suit booted up. From

Evan Currie

#93. 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

#94. Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

William Cowper

#95. Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem to him to be so; it is a problem of attitude to contemporary society and culture in relation to the basic human problem of learning to be human.

John Blacking

#96. Chief Engineer Naomi Nagata towered over him. She stood almost two full meters tall, her mop of curly hair tied back into a black tail, her expression halfway between amusement and annoyance.

James S.A. Corey

#97. I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: 'You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes;' and asked for their resignations.

Helen Thomas

#98. The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Larry Wall

#99. The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

Dalton Trumbo

#100. [The] artisans [ ... ] men whose chief interest is their craft and not the market place.

Hannah Arendt