Office Quotes - Page 36

• No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Land, Important, Citizens

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• Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixons own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.

  Richard Ben-Veniste

  Voice, Justice, Tape

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• Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can't see either.

  Kin Hubbard

  Men, Boxes, Wells

  "Short Furrows". Book by Kin Hubbard, 1911.

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• When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Apples, Tree, Cheerful

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Girl, Running, Distance

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• We must control the politics and the politicians of our community. They must no longer take orders from outside forces. We will organize, and sweep out of office all Negro politicians who are puppets for the outside forces.

  Malcolm X

  Order, Community, Puppets

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• If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Loyalty, Party, Responsibility

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• I was born in 1973, so I did not see 'Alien' when it was released theatrically. I saw 'Alien' when it was on Home Box Office. I think I was probably 10.

  Damon Lindelof

  Home, Thinking, Saws

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• Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

  George Washington

  Money, Power, Abuse

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• Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.

  John Milton

  Hands, Way, Destruction

  1665 Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.1001-6.

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• Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Expression, Ideas, Toil

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.580, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Liberty, Wealth, Should

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Athlete, Battle, Phantoms

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Mediocrity, Sometimes

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-- And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer.

  Ani DiFranco

  Summer, Block, Dumb

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• I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.

  Jerry Brown

  Ifs

  "Capitol Journal". Los Angeles Times, January 19, 2004.

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• Only a work democracy can create the foundation of genuine freedom. Long experience in sociological disputes leads me to expect that a great many people will take offense at the disclosure of this miscalculation. It makes the highest demands on people's will to veracity; it puts a heavy burden on everyday living; it places all social responsibility on those who work, be it in the factory, in the office, on the farm, in the laboratory, or wherever.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Responsibility, Long, People

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of wealth " are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.

  Bill Moyers

  Father, Constitution, Wealth

  "Moyers on Democracy". Book by Bill D. Moyers. Introduction, p. 3, 2008.

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• In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion in the marketing of home and office appliances. We are surrounded with objects of desire, not objects of use.

  Donald A. Norman

  Home, Marketing, Desire

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 7, p. 216, 1988.

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• I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? "Come unto me." Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Thinking, Meditation, Trying

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• The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Corporations, Lawyer, Delicate

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• Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror to return. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office. Israel's own Kahan commission found that Sharon shared responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres.

  Ken Livingstone

  Country, Military, War

  "This is about Israel, not anti-semitism" by Ken Livingstone, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.

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• Ye servants of the Lord, Each in his office wait, Observant of the heavenly word, And watchful at his gate.

  Philip Doddridge

  Waiting, Lord, Servant

  'Hymns' (1755) 'The active Christian'

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• I'm working on the Star Wars script today and the people in my office have covered up all my windows with black paper. I guess they wanted to make sure no one could see what I was doing. It seems rather extreme.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, War, Covered Up

  "JJ Abrams: Hollywood's Renaissance man" by Horatia Harrod, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 25, 2014.

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• What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.

  Andre Maurois

  Self Esteem, Men, Favour

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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