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Quotes About Chief

Who is going to pay a day's wage to slide down a damn tongue?" -- The Chief, Swamplandia
~ Karen Russell
the trees get angry if you bring flashlights or candles Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â "You girls want an underworld?" The Chief's booming laugh was directed
~ Karen Russell
Often pieces of the kernel called a bedrock layer of code, the "microkernel," which was the ultimate chief of staff within NT.
~ G. Pascal Zachary
Holloa! Starbuck's astir, said the rigger. He's a lively chief mate that; good man, and a pious; but
~ Herman Melville
Once in a while, we came in at the death of a chief 's pig; the noise of whose slaughtering was generally to be heard at a great distance. An occasion like this gathers the neighbors together, and they have a bit of a feast, where a stranger is always welcome. A good loud squeal, therefore, was music in our ears. It showed something going on in that direction.
~ Herman Melville
When I hear Donald Trump say the American military is a disaster, I want to go through the screen and shake the guy. We ought to have a commander in chief who talks about our troops with respect and gratitude.
~ Tim Kaine
By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.
~ Joe Torre
ITC looks forward to working with the chief minister and the government of India to ensure trade leads to impact on the ground.
~ Arancha Gonzalez
Jayalalitha has turned out to be a failure as chief minister.
~ Subramanian Swamy
It's the public which decides its Chief Minister. We live in a democracy.
~ Arvind Kejriwal
I am happy that Uddhav Thackeray has become chief minister of Maharashtra, and I would like to congratulate him.
~ Rakhi Sawant
Most men are so far from making God their chief end, in their natural and civil actions, that, in these matters, God is not in all their thoughts. . . . They seek God indeed, but not for himself, but for themselves. They seek him not at all, but for their own welfare; so their whole life is woven into one web of practical blasphemy; making God the means, and self their end; yea, their chief end.
~ Thomas Boston
The communist world, it may be noted, has one big myth (which we call an illusion, in the vain hope that our superior judgment will make it disappear). It is the time-hallowed archetypal dream of a Golden Age (or Paradise), where everything is provided in abundance for everyone, and a great, just, and wise chief rules over a human kindergarten.
~ C.G. Jung
Mhm, Kate, the chief of security. Sexy. Who better to guard my body than the woman who owns is?" "Curran, I will punch you." "Rough play." Curran pretended to shiver in excitement
~ Ilona Andrews
Mhm, Kate, the chief of security. Sexy. Who better to guard my body than the woman who owns it?" "Curran, I will punch you." "Rough play." Curran pretended to shiver in excitement.
~ Ilona Andrews
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.
~ Isaac Asimov
And the ship died! For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat's are really deadly.
~ Isaac Asimov
Since the bribes didn't work, the CIA planned to kidnap the commander in chief of the armed forces
~ Isabel Allende
The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces, the chief points in the process of history.
~ Edward Bernstein
The national security issues are a really good window into the character of the person that somebody wants to have as commander in chief.
~ Tim Kaine
Let us not forget something embedded in the U.S. Constitution: the president is commander in chief.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Not fear of this responsibility but surrender to the fear is a chief contributor to the subversion of self-esteem.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Just then, the Tonists began throwing rocks at the trucks. One came in the chief's direction, and he caught it before it could hit him. It wasn't exactly a rock, though. First of all, it was metallic and had hard ridges. He's seen something like this before in history books. Think! What was it called? Oh right--a grenade! And in an instant there was nothing more for the chief to think about.
~ Neal Shusterman
I had a polite disagreement with Chief Inspector Grabby Hands." Chief Inspector Barrett. "It was him or me, and he had rank. Do you need me to draw you a diagram?" "No, that won't be necessary." Gibson nodded to himself, as if confirming a suspicion. He seemed indecently satisfied, but she was damned if she could see why.
~ Charles Stross