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Quotes About Chief

My name is Chief Animae Cibus, I come from the Anasazi, a name meaning, alien ancestors and basket weavers. We walked this earth and these lands for a very long time. I have not come to harm you, I have come to admonish you." Instinctively
~ John V. Panella
What's my job, Chief?" Everyone looked at Matt and grinned but Matt frowned instead. "Forget it, Katie." He scowled. "No girls are allowed in the Adventure Club," he said firmly. The little voice answered. "I'm not a girl. I'm a sister." "No, Katie, what you are is a pain. Now be quiet and go to sleep.
~ Elvira Woodruff
Even in the mid-1990s geeks were fair game. One afternoon a colleague and I were standing on either side of one of the narrow aisles between the banks of trading desks on the floor when one of the chief traders walked between us, his head momentarily between ours. At that instant he winced, clutched his head with both hands as though in excruciating pain, and exclaimed, "Aarrggh-hhh! The force field! It's too intense! Let me out of the way!
~ Emanuel Derman
Mr Boultbee seems to have done us a good turn," said Nicholas. "I gather his sermons were not much liked." No; we got very tired of Africa and I didn't feel that what he told us rang quite true. He said that one African chief had had a thousand wives. I found that a little difficult to believe." Well, we know what men are," said Jane casually, surprised that Miss Dogget, with her insistence on men only wanting one thing, should have found this difficult to believe.
~ Barbara Pym
Murray kept repeating that the BEF was under the formal orders of its Commander in Chief to rest, reorganize, and await reinforcements, and he could do nothing until his return.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
It has been denied that any direct pressure was exerted by the Russian Government, but the point is not of great importance, for the Communist parties of all countries can be taken as carrying out Russian policy, and it is not denied that the Communist Party was the chief
~ George Orwell
Oh, you break my heart. Why does everything have to be so sad to you? Why do you have so many negative opinions about things you don't know about, like foreign countries and diseases and everything? Why can't you be more like Chief Wayne? He has zero opinions. He's just upbeat.
~ George Saunders
The truth of the matter is, I will miss being the commander in chief of such a fabulous group of men and women -- those who wear the uniform of the United States military.
~ George W. Bush
Actually, when Vineeth was in class 10, I was invited to his school as the chief guest. Till then I had never accepted an invitation to the school day but since Vineeth was leaving school, I decided to accept the invitation. He was the school leader too.
~ Sreenivasan
I used to be the chief guest in all the prize distribution ceremonies of shooting competitions. I tried my hand on a lot of guns, and my aim improved. I started hitting tiny targets, like a mineral bottle cap.
~ Nana Patekar
When I joined Google, they asked me what title I wanted. I said, 'What about archduke?' They said, 'Well, that didn't meet our nomenclature. Why don't you be our Chief Internet Evangelist?' This was in 2005.
~ Vint Cerf
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
~ Gerald R. Ford
When the Lakota chief Red Cloud finally quit fighting the intruders, he reportedly told a white delegation, "We didn't need all this land, and neither did you.
~ Scott Zesch
Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.
~ Jane Austen
I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon.
~ John Kasich
The chief investigator for Special Cases was a composite of the most ordinary features, a stencil of a man.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
to the airport's duty fire chief. Danny summarized the situation so far. "And when we locate the truck, let's get an ambulance out there, and you may need an inhalator or heat, could be both. But better not roll until we know where exactly. We don't want to dig you guys out, too.
~ Arthur Hailey
Inbound Covenant air support," Blue-Four reported over the COM link. "ETA is two minutes, Chief.
~ Eric S. Nylund
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
~ Erich Fromm
Samuel Pierpont Langley, chief astronomer of Pittsburgh's Allegheny Observatory, who innovated the sale of time
~ Ben Ehrenreich
We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forces of the United States in our history, bar none - including President Lincoln.
~ Nigel Hamilton
General Thé is not a very controlled character.' 'And bombs aren't for boys from Boston. Who is Pyle's chief, Heng?' 'I have the impression that Mr Pyle is very much his own master.' 'What is he? O.S.S.?' 'The initial letters are not very important. I think now they are different.
~ Graham Greene
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
When you give chief executives too much compensation in stock options, they concentrate too much on the stock price, and there is a perverse incentive to raise the stock price, particularly when the chief executive wants to exercise his own options.
~ George Akerlof