Chief Quotes

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.

And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.

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.

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.