Chief Quotes - page 2

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself. (Kim Stanley Robinson)
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. View quote
Aleister Crowley
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. View quote
Joseph Addison
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. View quote
William Temple
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
Pernicious weed whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours. View quote
William Cowper
Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable. View quote
Anthony Trollope
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. View quote
Don Marquis
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. View quote
Bertrand Russell
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. (Isaac Asimov)
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. View quote
Charles Kingsley
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. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. View quote
Helen Keller
In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study. View quote
Norman Lamm
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense. View quote
Pablo Picasso
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. (Hannah Arendt)
One of the chief reasons for the widespread fear of the Huns rested on their ability to travel very long distances in relatively short periods. This ability may well have been based on their use of horseshoes. View quote
Carroll Quigley
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life-becoming a better person. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
Hail to the chief who in triumph advances. View quote
Walter Scott