Chief Quotes

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.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.

When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets.

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.

The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.