Office Quotes - Page 11

• Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Faithful, Good Man, Belief

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• Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

  Jay Inslee

  Creativity, Light, Flames

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• My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.

  David Ulevitch

  Birthday, Mother, Cake

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• In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

  Edmund Burke

  Jobs, Exercise, Nominations

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1453, Delphi Classics

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• So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.

  Stephen Cambone

  War, Support, Groups

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• This is a crucial time in the fight for corporate civil rights. Just look at the hateful signs at Occupy Wallstreet: 'Corporations Are Not People!' Wow, I thought we were past the point in this country where some people aren't people just because they have different color skin or different religion or were born in a lawyer's office, only exist on paper, have no soul and can never die.

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Fighting, Past

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• Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.

  Dorothy Parker

  Marriage, Magazines, Tiny

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• At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.

  Bill Vaughan

  Moving, Humor, Law

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• There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an ambition to make his mark rather than by any consistent political purpose, and that his attacks on Peel would have not have been so mounted had he been given in 1841 the office for which he had asked.

  Christopher Hibbert

  Ambition, History, Political

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• Violence has been a necessary component of every serious liberation struggle...Violence is not the only path to liberation, but likely an indispensable one...the Press Office would like to be clear on this matter: we support all the liberationists ­ from the graffiti artists and ALF liberator to the Animal Rights Militia, Justice Department and Revolutionary Cells.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Struggle, Artist, Animal

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• The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Dreamer, Way

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• What would you do, sir, if terrorists were killing 45,000 people every year in this country? Well, the current health care system, the insurance companies, and those who support them are doing just that. [...] Because they die individually because of disease and not disaster, [radio host] Neal Boortz and all those who ape him approve this. Forty five thousand a year in America. Remind me again, who are the terrorists?

  Keith Olbermann

  Country, Years, America

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. January 5, 2010.

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• I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office.

  Sean Elliott

  Simple, Doctors, People

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• Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.

  Jim Cooper

  Years, President, Six Months

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• There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Country, School, World Religions

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• I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

  David Remnick

  Mistake, Thinking, Vanity

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• I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

  Esther Williams

  Firsts, Yards, Study

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• I was considering running for political office.

  Michael Newdow

  Running, Political, Considering

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• At the end of the day, there's not an office complex anywhere on these grounds that I wouldn't be honored to have as a sitting member of Congress.

  Steve Womack

  The End Of The Day, Sitting, Ends

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• The most important consideration I have is I want my legislative shop to have a functional office suite that is conducive to getting their work accomplished.

  Steve Womack

  Important, Want, Consideration

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• As soon as Mr. Roosevelt took office, the Federal Reserve began to buy government securities at the rate of ten million dollars a week for 10 weeks, and created one hundred million dollars in new [checkbook] currency, which alleviated the critical famine of money and credit, and the factories started hiring people again.

  Eustace Mullins

  Government, People, Dollars

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• When the copulative kai [`and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal description, respecting office, dignity, affinity, or connexion, and attributes, properties, or qualities, good or ill], if the article [ho], or any of its cases, precedes the first of the said nouns or participles, and is not repeated before the second noun or participle, the latter always relates to the same person that is expressed or described by the first noun or participle: i.e. it denotes a farther description of the first-named person.

  Granville Sharp

  Two, Quality, Adjectives

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• You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don't quite fit in anywhere.  And then you walk into a room one day, whether it's at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, 'Ah. There they are.' And suddenly you feel at home.

  Jojo Moyes

  Home, Feelings, One Day

  Jojo Moyes (2014). “The One Plus One”, p.156, Penguin UK

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• It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.

  Nick Clooney

  Looks, Administration, Welfare

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• At some level, I feel it is nice to know that a film of yours is doing well at the box office and has also got great reviews. That feels like success.

  Deepika Padukone

  Nice, Levels, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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