Chiefs Quotes - Page 20

• Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christ, Made, Companion

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• One of our chief needs as creative beings is support.  Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by.  Ideally, we would be nurtured and encourages first by our nuclear family and then by ever-widening circles of friends, teachers, well-wishers.  As young artists, we need and want to be acknowledged for our attempts and efforts as well as for our achievements and triumphs.  Unfortunately, many artists never receive this critical early encouragement.  As a result, they may not know they are artists at all.

  Julia Cameron

  Teacher, Encouragement, Artist

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.45, Souvenir Press

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• The chief problem with television is that, for those who watch it consistently, it undermines and eventually destroys the ability to think. This is because it communicates primarily images, not by words, and words are necessary if we are to perceive logical connections and make judgments as to what is right and wrong.

  James Montgomery Boice

  Thinking, Connections, Watches

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• The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

  John Stott

  Christian, Hazards, Discouragement

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• I did drugs for 18 years and I never got that bad as to say, 'You know what? I think the Kaiser Chiefs are brilliant.'

  Noel Gallagher

  Thinking, Years, Drug

  "Mark Ronson: 'Jay-Z is teaching me to play Wonderwall'" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2008.

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• And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do.

  Theresa May

  Jobs, Decision, Police

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

  T. S. Eliot

  Strong, Paris, Danger

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 1: 1898-1922”, p.537, Faber & Faber

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• The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  War, Air, Spirit

  Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.107, Pen and Sword

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• The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Century, Twentieth Century

  "Logic, methodology and philosophy of science: Proceedings" by Patrick Suppes, 1973.

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• Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures. He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Mean, Heaven, Treasure

  "Man: The Dwelling Place of God". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1966.

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• He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Exercise, United States

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.

  Germaine Greer

  Couple, Real, Struggle

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police.

  Jan Neruda

  Men, Pigs, Two

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• Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Wealth, Justified, Ends

  "The Resonant Words, and Wisdom, of 'Silent Cal'" by Carl M. Cannon, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 07, 2015.

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• If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.

  Bob Riley

  Fire, House, Needs

  "Obama Draws Bipartisan Criticism for Using Oil Spill to Push Energy Policy". www.foxnews.com. June 16, 2010.

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• The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

  Christian D. Larson

  Giving Up, Trying, Tasks

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.365, Penguin

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• There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.

  James Burnham

  Class, Liberty, Groups

  "The Machiavellians, Defenders of Freedom" by James Burnham, (p. 280), 1987.

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• Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off. I am 54 years old, weigh 220 pounds, and look like the chief dispatcher of a long-distance driving concern. I am a registered Democrat. I drink.

  James M. Cain

  Girl, Distance, Years

  James M. Cain (1982). “The Butterfly”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Believe, Preparation, Secret

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

  Larry Gelbart

  Divorce, Causes, Funny Divorce

  "M*A*S*H. Season 3. Bulletin Board". TV Series,

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• The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.

  Evan Esar

  Divorce, Men, Three

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• Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most sensible, affordable approach to the problem. Policemen are assigned their police patrol cars for personal use after hours. They are encouraged to use the police car while taking the family shopping, to the movies, and everywhere one takes one's family. As a result, says the Police Chief's assistant, we may have as many as 400 cars on the street instead of 100 or so per shift. [And] the presence of the police car obviously indicates the proximity of policemen.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Issues, Cities, Shopping

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• In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Leadership, Character, Giving

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• My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Ideas, Funeral

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Novels of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated Edition): Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Master of Ballantrae, St Ives: Adventures of a French Prisoner in England…”, p.1206, e-artnow

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• Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but they must not be the centre. To reinforce the common sense they must be a constant teacher, ever travelling, ever talking, ever listening, the chief missionary of the common cause.

  Charles Handy

  Leadership, Teacher, Talking

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