Chief Quotes

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

I'm extremely lucky in that my wife is the chief scheduler.

We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

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.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

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 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.

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.

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.