Chieftains Quotes

#1. Chieftains must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than its letter.

Attila The Hun

#2. Well, I'd say fuck too, if I were me. I'd say it backward and forward and around the block, fuck this and fuck that and fuck it all at once, twice, three times.

Colum McCann

#3. If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Meister Eckhart

#4. In memory, everything seems to happen to music.

Tennessee Williams

#5. Our way of thinking causes us more pain than all our misfortunes.

Marty Rubin

#6. Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.

Sun Tzu

#7. And her soul died in her for fear: she knew she had never seen him, he had never seen her, they had met in the dark and had fought in the dark, not knowing whom they met nor whom they fought.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.

Pink

#9. My master was kidnapped by your household's demon chieftains. Return him early, and I'll spare your lives! If you don't, I'll overturn your den and reduce you spirits to pus and blood!

Wu Cheng'en

#10. It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield.

Attila The Hun

#11. I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

Amy Adams

#12. A daughter grows older and draws nearer to her mother, until she gradually overlaps her like a sewing pattern. But a son becomes some irreparably separate thing.

Brit Bennett

#13. How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!

Thomas Hood

#14. Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

Giraldus Cambrensis

#15. In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom.

Peter Drucker

#16. Aunt-Sister said Charleston had a case of the grandeurs. Up till I was eight or so, I thought the grandeurs was a shitting sickness.

Sue Monk Kidd

#17. One store owner said he was going to leave a dictionary on a public bench so the vandals could at least spell the obscenities correctly. It

Anne Bishop

#18. We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.

Joe Miller

#19. You're so sweet,' Frypan said with a snort. 'Go ahead and die with Thomas. I think I'll sneak away and enjoy living with the guilt.

James Dashner

#20. In 1849 he had forty-six chieftains sign a treaty in which they declared themselves subjects of the queen. The Crown has had right of preemption for land sales ever since.

Sarah Lark

#21. That is why they have poets - to classify all the degrees of love. It is for scientists to classify the maladies arising from the want of it.

Sarah Ruhl