Chief Quotes
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Kamisese Mara
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A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
Jack Adams -
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But not until recently has it been recognized that in living organisms, as in the realm of crystals, chemical differences parallel the variation in structure.
Karl Landsteiner -
Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -
At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
Zebulon Pike -
On some level, you could say you wouldn't have 'In Style Magazine' at all had Anna Wintour not decided to put celebrities on the cover of 'Vogue' from her earliest years as Editor in Chief.
R. J. Cutler -
Definitely, a non-tribal can become chief minister in Jharkhand.
Kariya Munda
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
Wallace Stevens -
The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.
Evan Esar -
I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
Dan Quayle -
Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.
Bergen Evans -
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
Walter Scott -
I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
Adam Giles
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My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
Albert Camus -
I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.
Narendra Modi -
A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.
Hannah Arendt -
You could say the network was beating up on you, and he acted as a very benign and positive kind of chief justice.
Larry Gelbart -
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates
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Our approach is understanding where they are in their life. We're like a personal chief financial officer for the client.
Michael Rose Black Uhuru -
Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.
Larry Gelbart -
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
Kingsley Amis -
Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.
Florida Scott-Maxwell