Top 380 Chiefly Quotes & Sayings

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offenses. This makes sense only if He really was God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly Because it dissolves in water.

Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.

Comedy is an intellectual affair, and deals chiefly with logic. Tragedy is an emotional affair, and deals chiefly with value. Horace Walpole once said that "life is a comedy to the man who thinks and a tragedy to the man who feels." Comedy is negative; it is a criticism of limitations and an unwillingness to accept them. Tragedy is positive; it is an uncritical acceptance of the positive content of that which is delimited. Since comedy deals with the limitations of actual situations and tragedy with their positive content, comedy must ridicule and tragedy must endorse.

Packing is chiefly planning -- if it is

The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips

Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry deals chiefly with whole numbers.

Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

System debugging, like astronomy, has always been done chiefly at night.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.

The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends on how we take it. To look at the world in such a way as to emphasize the evil is the art of pessimism. To look at it in such a way as to bring out the good, and throw the evil into the background, is the art of optimism. The facts are the same in either case. It is simply a question of perspective and emphasis.

If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and attendant of it. But to seek after affection directly and chiefly; to have the heart principally set upon that; is to place it in the room of God and his glory. If it be sought, that others may take notice of it, and admire us for our spirituality and forwardness in religion, it is then damnable pride; if for the sake of feeling the pleasure of being affected, it is then idolatry and self-gratification.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.

How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise often. Translation, imitation, those were my methods anyway.

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.