Chief Quotes

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.

When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.

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

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.