Chief Quotes

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

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.

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.

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.

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

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.