Top 25 Chiefs Quotes of 149

The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life

The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life

Jonathan Edwards

Christian, Kingdoms, Chiefs

The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.

Thomas Keating

Chiefs

Thomas Keating (2002). “Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel”, p.44, A&C Black

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

Daniel Dennett

Mistake, Chiefs, Tricks

Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.

Jude Law

Pockets, Showy, Handkerchiefs

Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Evil People, Support, Chiefs

The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you.

Hilary of Poitiers

Speak, Should, Chiefs

Chief Keef scares me... not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents.

Lupe Fiasco

Scare, Culture, Chiefs

"Lupe Fiasco: Not Retiring From the Rap Game Just Yet" by Nicole Powell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 19, 2012.

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

John Calvin

Prayer, Exercise, Chiefs

John Calvin (2015). “Commentary on Daniel”, p.353, Ravenio Books

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

Bernard Law Montgomery

Decision, Quality, Chiefs

The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.

Freeman Tilden

Instruction, Interpretation, Chiefs

Freeman Tilden (2009). “Interpreting Our Heritage”, p.59, Univ of North Carolina Press

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

Richard Rorty

Arguing, Talent, Chiefs

Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

Desiderius Erasmus

Elements, Want, Chiefs

"Worship at the temple of Folly" by Nicholas Lezard, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.

Nan Goldin

Memories, Influence, Chiefs

Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

Galen

Merit, Language, Chiefs

Galen (1916). “Galen On the Natural Faculties”

For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

America, Long, Chiefs

Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.34, Basic Books

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

Henry David Thoreau

Ethics, Morality, Chiefs

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.537, Simon and Schuster

The chief merit of language is clearness.

Galen

Merit, Language, Chiefs

Galen, Arthur John Brock (1991). “On the natural faculties”, Loeb Classical Library

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

Thomas Brooks

Christ, Made, Chiefs

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

Edgar Allan Poe

Pockets, Genuine, Handkerchiefs

Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.221, University of Illinois Press

The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.

Gilbert Highet

Aim Of Education, Chiefs, Enjoy

Gilbert Highet (1976). “The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning”, Random House Incorporated