(363 quotes found)
“In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state”
Charles de Montesquieu
“The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“My chief responsibilities have been described as soliciting and procuring. The illegal variety would be easier. And it certainly would be more profitable.”
Rebecca Greer
“I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Chief nourished in life's feast.”
William Shakespeare
“If the Kaiser Chiefs win then I could well be the one seeking employment, they have been consistently backed and we have a very lopsided book,”
William Hill
“Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever - On his surrender to Gen. Howard.”
Chief Joseph
“Be the chief but never the lord.”
Lao Tzu
“Then she gave something to the chief, and it was a pipe with a bison calf carved on one side to mean the earth that bears and feeds us, and with twelve eagle feathers hanging from the stem to mean the sky and the twelve moons, and these were tied with a grass that never breaks,”
Black Elk
“The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
