Quotes of: Chiefly Keyword

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

Erica Jong

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Edgar Allan Poe

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

John Buchanan Robinson

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

Agnes Repplier

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

George Gilder

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

Ambrose Bierce

Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give th...

In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age

Do not desire chiefly to be cherished and consoled by God; desire above all to love Him. Do not anxiously desire to have others find consolation in God, but rather help them to love God. Do not seek consolation in talking about God, but speak of Him ...

No Man Is an Island

To think of our prayers as just ‘causes’ would suggest that the whole importance of petitionary prayer lay in the achievement of the thing asked for. But really, for our spiritual life as a whole, the ‘being taken into account,’ or ‘conside...

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

Patrick White

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Henry Ward Beecher

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.

John Moody

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.

Francis Lockier

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

C.G. Jung

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Franklin Pierce Adams

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Thomas Hardy

Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.

Nelson A. Miles

Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

The Education of Henry Adams

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

Stephen Gardiner

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

William Hazlitt

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Kingsley Amis