Chief Quotes

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

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

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

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

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

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.

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans.

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

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.

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.