Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Riordan

Where I've been -- I think, a good leader -- is by saying I've got a great chief of police, I'm going to back this chief, I'm not going get out there in public and emasculate him,

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Working in the White House is a tremendous privilege. But it is even a greater honor to serve as the president's chief of staff, especially to you, Mr. President.

Definitely, a non-tribal can become chief minister in Jharkhand.

Evan Bayh

Like all Americans regardless of party, I hope and pray that he will be a great chief justice. Time will tell,

Ted Cruz

We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.

Red Cloud

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

Since the two chief weapons inspectors say they need more time for the weapons inspections, I think that's reasonable,

Since he will soon be chief executive, he should take all of the vacations he can prior to that because there will be precious little time then.

Mr. Murdock was the chief lawyer, chief lobbyist -- he was the whole package on this deal.

George Akerlof

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.

Jamal Lewis

We really knocked the snot -- for lack of a better word -- out of each other on Friday,'' Chiefs defensive end Eric Hicks said.

Edward Kennedy

There is clear and convincing evidence that John Roberts is the wrong choice for chief justice, ... I oppose the nomination, and I urge my colleagues to do the same.

Prakash Karat

The Prime Minister has got the Chief Minister's letter by now. We expect a response from him.

Sathya Baba

Love must flow not from the tongue or from the head only, but chiefly from the heart.

She's been my chief clerk for the past 17 and a half years. We've had a great relationship of working together and as for as I know, we've never had a cross word.

The police chief wouldn't put his officers out on the street if their guns didn't work... so our firefighters want to know where is the fire chief to protect them on this issue.

The police chief will be the determining officer ... on a case-by-case basis,

The police chief has very clear instructions about that. I wish however that tomorrow's derby is tranquil.

The police chief has indicated that this investigation is a top priority. We are working right now to develop a timeline of what happened.

Neil Strauss

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.

Jack Kent Cooke

I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.

William Bartram

First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.

Bob Ainsworth

As the Chief of the Defence Staff says, you don't defend on the goal line. Defending the interests of the U.K. means tackling threats early and at source, and that means intervening overseas.

Alice Morse Earle

We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.

The only control really is the next election if they don't commit a felony in office. Everybody wants to be sheriff. Lots of men have sheriff fantasies. It could be a little macho. There's something to be said for being the chief law enforcement officer in the county.

George Gilder

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

William Samuel Johnson

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

Geoff Hoon

The Chief Whip's job is trying to make sure that the Government - and MPs elected as part of the governing party - deliver the promises that they were elected on. That's a healthy part of the democratic process.

William Henry Moody

At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat.

Vivek Wadhwa

In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists.

Ellen Key

The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to be realised by the educator is that he really has before him an entirely new soul, a real self whose first and chief right is to think over the things with which he comes in contact.

We believe, as a result of that, the chief removed him from office, and started a specious investigation.