Chiefly

Famous quotes containing the word chiefly:

    “What chiefly distinguishes the daily press of the United States from the press of all other countries is not its lack of truthfulness or even its lack of dignity and honor, for these deficiencies are common to the newspapers everywhere, but its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion. It is, in the true sense, never well-informed.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “Wonder at all he meets,
    Wonderer chiefly at himself,—
    Who can tell him what he is?
    Or how meet in human elf
    Coming and past eternities?”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.”
    —Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)