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I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe. Rosemary Mahoney

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

Thomas Hardy

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

George Gilder

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Edgar Allan Poe

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

Lascelles Abercrombie

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

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Petrarch

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

Agnes Repplier

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Marianne Moore

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

Richard Leakey

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

Marilyn Monroe

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

John Ruskin

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

Georg Brandes

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

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

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Socrates

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

Kingsley Amis

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Arnold Bennett

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

In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers, and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the Tories.

Paul Revere

'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

Algernon Blackwood

It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.

Lajos Kossuth

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

Kate Chopin

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

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Ambrose Bierce

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.

John Woolman

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

Franklin Pierce Adams

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

Erica Jong

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

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

E. F. Schumacher

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

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

Iris Murdoch