The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.
In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.
The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
The chief thing is to love others likeyourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all.
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life
I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
God gives you opportunities and I'm thankful that the Chiefs gave me this opportunity. I'm very grateful to be on this team. I'm just going out there to try and be the best player that I can be for this team and take it from there.
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.
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself.
Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care
President O[bama] talks the talk and then walks a completely different walk. I would call him the divider-in-chief.
Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.