Quotes of: Chiefly Keyword

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude And fled to the silence of sweet solitude. Where the flower in green darkness buds, blossoms, and fades, Unseen of all shepherds and flower-loving maids— The hermit bees find them but once and away....

Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know abou...

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

Every service is a structure of acts and words through which we rceive a sacrament, or repent, or supplicate, or adore. And it enables us to do these things best--if you like, it 'works' best--when, through long familiarity, we don't have to think ab...

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

Leon Wieseltier

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 upo...

The Life and Diary of David Brainerd

... the very last thing I want to do is to unsettle in the mind of any Christian, whatever his denomination, the concepts -- for him traditional -- by which he finds it profitable to represent to himself what is happening when he receives the bread a...

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

I hid my love when young till I Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly; I hid my life to my despite Till I could not bear to look at light: I dare not gaze upon her face But left her memory in each place; Where'er I saw a wild flower lie I kissed and bad...

Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

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

Marilyn Monroe

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Socrates

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

Charles Churchill

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

John Tillotson

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

Charles Lamb

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

E. F. Schumacher

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

Georg Brandes

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

John Maynard Keynes

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

The Collected Writings

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

Iris Murdoch

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

Richard Leakey

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Henry David Thoreau

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

John Ruskin

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

Miguel de Cervantes