Chief Quotes - page 7

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. (Hu Shih)
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. View quote
Anna Howard Shaw
When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons. View quote
Adam Clymer
In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train. View quote
Bruce Catton
A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human. View quote
Charles Wagner
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments. View quote
Cliff Stearns
But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense. View quote
Don Nickles
Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together. View quote
Elio Di Rupo
The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America. View quote
Ellsworth Huntington
Rabbi means teacher, and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher. View quote
Ephraim Mirvis
I feel very privileged indeed to be appointed to be the next Chief Rabbi. (Ephraim Mirvis)
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. View quote
Ferdinand Mount
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! View quote
Howard Hawks
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. View quote
Jane Porter
For people who don't know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. I've been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor. View quote
John Barrasso
The role at the DCCC as well as the role of chief deputy whip - I wouldn't be where I am in those spots if it were not for the speaker's approval. View quote
Joseph Crowley
What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian. View quote
Mack McLarty
Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions. View quote
Michelle Malkin
Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first. View quote
Richard Jefferson
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. View quote
Richard Widmark
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially. (Ralph G. Neas)
I was asked three times directly in the hearing before the board of the judiciary whether or not I would continue to acknowledge God if I were to resume my position as chief justice. And I said I would. View quote
Roy Moore
We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us. View quote
Rebecca Harding Davis
Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. View quote
Rebecca Harding Davis
The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark. View quote
Stephen Gardiner