The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.
When stumbling blocks can become stepping stones, then these stones that the builders reject can equally become chief corner stones!
The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.
Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.
The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.
You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.
Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain.
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.
As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.
Chief Bosun: [after Lieutenant Werner gets a oily rag thrown in his face] Who did that?... WHO DID THAT?
General Rogard: You'll be Chief Inspector of Subway Toilets by the time I'm through with you!
Crown Prince Leopold: He has tricked you, it is all an illusion! Chief Inspector Uhl: Perhaps there is truth in this illusion.
Eisenheim: [Angrily] Are you completely corrupt? Chief Inspector Uhl: No, not completely, which is why I'll advise you not to accuse anyone.
Chief Inspector Uhl: You know, I have seen things like this before... but never one like that.
Field Reporter: Are they slow-moving, chief? Sheriff McClelland: Yeah, they're dead. They're all messed up.
Police Chief Aiello: Find my son, or I'll burn down this building!
Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
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.
