Chief Quotes

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.

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

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

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

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.

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.

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

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

Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.