quotes about Chiefs
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They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained ...
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In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.
-- Barry Goldwater -
I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
-- Bear Grylls -
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Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery -
The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The chief business of the American people is business.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
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When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.
-- Charles Warren Stoddard -
A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.
-- Chief Joseph -
Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.
-- Chief Seattle -
No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.
-- Claire McCaskill -
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There's always time for one more pint. - Chief Inspector Morse
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Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.
-- Conrad Black -
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
-- Daniel DennettSource : Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
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The boomerang is Australia's chief export (and then import).
-- Demetri Martin -
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
-- Edmund Clarence StedmanSource : EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1875). “VICTORIAN POETS”, p.156
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I feel very privileged indeed to be appointed to be the next Chief Rabbi.
-- Ephraim Mirvis -
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Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.
-- Florida Scott-MaxwellSource : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.37, Knopf
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When you labor for your brother you always get the chief reward yourself.
-- Francis M. Lyman -
The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.
-- Freeman TildenSource : Freeman Tilden (2009). “Interpreting Our Heritage”, p.59, Univ of North Carolina Press
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The chief merit of language is clearness.
-- GalenSource : Galen, Arthur John Brock (1991). “On the natural faculties”, Loeb Classical Library
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What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.
-- George ArnoldSource : George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.27
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When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.
-- George CrookSource : George Crook (1986). “General George Crook: His Autobiography”, p.229, University of Oklahoma Press
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I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.
-- GeronimoSource : Geronimo (2012). “Geronimo: My Life”, p.33, Courier Corporation
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The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.
-- Gilbert HighetSource : Gilbert Highet (1976). “The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning”, Random House Incorporated
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It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.
-- Hector Hugh MunroSource : Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics
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The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you.
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Mmmm, Kate, the Chief of Security. Sexy. Who better to guard my body then the woman who owns it?" "Curran, I will punch you.
-- Ilona Andrews -
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The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
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If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.
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In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.
-- James G. FrazerSource : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
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Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
-- Jean Paul -
Jean Kirkpatrick [is] the chief sadist-in-residence of the Reagan Administration
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Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America.
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If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
-- Jim DeMintSource : "DeMint Weighs In". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. January 19, 2012.
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Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.
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Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
-- John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby -
The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.
-- John Stott -
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The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.
-- John Stott -
Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that "usually rather." Safe generalizations are quite boring.
-- Joseph Epstein -
I’d been declared—over my loud and sustained protests—Pythia, the chief seer of the supernatural world.
-- Karen Chance -
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
-- Kim Stanley RobinsonSource : Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.380, Spectra
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It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.
-- Kurt VonnegutSource : That Was the Year That Was (record album) (1965)
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Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.
-- Larry Gelbart -
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
-- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington -
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The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.
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The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.
-- Michael Porter -
My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.
-- Michele Bachmann -
The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.
-- Napoleon Hill -
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It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief.
-- Nathan Hale -
The press is our chief ideological weapon.
-- Nikita KhrushchevSource : Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (1964). “The great mission of literature and art”
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In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.
-- Norman LammSource : "Seventy Faces: Articles of Faith". Book by Norman Lamm, 2002.
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I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope.
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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 -
We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
-- Rebecca Harding DavisSource : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.71, Vanderbilt University Press
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A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change,
-- Richard RortySource : Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.7, Cambridge University Press
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The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.
-- Robin G. Collingwood -
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 -
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During the Koizumi administration, I served as the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary as well as the Chief Cabinet Secretary.
-- Shinzo Abe -
I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.
-- Stuart RoseSource : "Sir Stuart Rose: 'They say we can't afford to retire, and I don't want to'". Interview with Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.
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Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.
-- Thomas Brooks -
Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.
-- Thomas Hooker -
The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.
-- Thomas KeatingSource : Thomas Keating (2002). “Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel”, p.44, A&C Black
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Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.
-- Wyndham Lewis -
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For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski -
What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own.
-- Anacharsis Cloots -
I often think of myself as the discoverer-in-chief.
-- Ronald M. Shaich -
Chief Keef makes me proud that there are other young ***** out there who are about that code.
-- SpaceGhostPurrp -
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The chief al Qaeda recruiting tool is the net.
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Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.
-- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery -
A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.
-- Douglas Leone -
God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself.
-- Edward Bouverie PuseySource : Edward Bouverie Pusey (1888). “Selections from the Writings of Edward Bouverie Pusey”
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Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.
-- Jack Kent Cooke -
I want to be a Chief. I want to be a Chief for life.
-- Tony Gonzalez