#chief

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

#assuming #bush #central #chief #competitor

Give her hell from us, Peeves. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#george-weasley #hell #mischief #peeves #umbridge

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. ↗

— Horatio Alger

#art #art of war #became #castle #chieftain

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#characteristic #chief #displacing #incompetence #journalism

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. ↗

— Aristotle

#alike #attained #best #chiefly #democracy

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#bread #breaking #chief #dead #means

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#allows #asked #benefit #chief #dream

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#either #enterprises #fortune #given #great

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. ↗

— William Bartram

#eagle #first #flight #great #grey

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#itself #mischief #punishment