Office Quotes - Page 37

• If I did not believe that our work was done in the faith and hope that at some day, it may be a million years hence, the Kingdom of God will spread over the whole world, I would have no hope, I could do no work, and I would give my office over this morning to anyone who would take it.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Morning, Believe, Years

  Speech to the British and Foreign Bible Society on May 02, 1928. "This Torch of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses". Book by Stanley Baldwin, pp. 92-93, 1935.

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• The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen.

  Charles Babbage

  Church, Clergymen, Certain

  Charles Babbage (1851). “The Exposition of 1851, Or, Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government, of England”, p.225

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• Beauty is everywhere - on the campus, in the office, living next door... Nice girls like sex too - it's a natural part of life. Don't be ashamed of it.

  Hugh Hefner

  Girl, Sex, Nice

  "A Visit with 'Playboy' Founder Hugh Hefner". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 6, 2003.

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• CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior.

  Douglas Coupland

  Attitude, Terrorism, Behavior

  1991 Generation X,'Quit Recycling the Past'.

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• The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by no means novel; it has long been one of the commonplaces of popular opinion.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Mean, Class, Long

  Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at this or that delicious haunt of salubrity, the affairs of the world are then settled in little conclaves, with grater ease, rapidity, and certainty than in large parliaments or the dull chambers of public offices?

  Anthony Trollope

  Autumn, Doe, Ease

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.2289, e-artnow

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• The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.

  Bel Kaufman

  Art, Children, Reading

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs.

  Harold Pinter

  Home, Use, Language

  Harold Pinter (2013). “Harold Pinter: Plays 4: Betrayal; Monologue; One for the Road; Mountain Language; Family Voices; A Kind of Alaska; Victoria Station; Precisely; The New World Order; Party Time; Moonlight: Ashes to Ashes; Celebration; Umbrellas; God's District; Apart from That”, p.253, Faber & Faber

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• That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which, not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge to be hereditary.

  George Mason

  Men, Judging, Community

  "The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America" compiled and edited by Newton Thorpe, Washington, DC : Government Printing Office, 1909.

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• The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office of the law to remind them of their duty and thereby to excite them to the pursuit of holiness and integrity. But when their consciences are solicitous how God may be propitiated, what answer they shall make, and on what they shall rest their confidence, if called to his tribunal, there must then be no consideration of the requisitions of the law, but Christ alone must be proposed for righteousness, who exceeds all the perfection of the law.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Integrity, Exercise

  John Calvin (1985). “On God and Political Duty: Calvin”, Prentice Hall

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• However many people complain about the "red tape," it would be sheer illusion to think ... continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices.... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dillettantism.

  Max Weber

  Mean, Thinking, People

  1922 Collected in Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich (eds) Economy and Society (1978), ch.3.

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• I certainly wouldn't compare the rewards of watching one's children grow and mature with that of money piling up at the box office. Both are pleasant, but to varying degrees. As the old saying goes, you can't take an audience home with you. You can't depend on the loyalty of fans, who, after all is said and done, are just faceless people one seldom sees. And few stars have their fans forever. But a child is forever. That bond and relationship is timeless and doesn't depend on your looks, age or popularity at the moment.

  Julie Andrews

  Loyalty, Stars, Children

  Saturday Evening Post, February 1980.

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• If the world is ever conquered for our Lord, it is not by ministers, nor by office-bearers, nor by the great, and noble and mighty, but by every member of Christ's body being a working member; doing his work; filling his own sphere; holding his own post; and saying to Jesus, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"

  Thomas Guthrie

  Jesus, Noble, World

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 128, 1895.

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• I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is one of the most important that can be held by any Englishman; and those qualifications are that in the first place I believe in the British Empire, and in the second place I believe in the British race. I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Believe, Race, Two

  Joseph Chamberlain (1897). “Foreign & Colonial Speeches”, London ; New York : Routledge

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• Much more should have been achieved by a Labour Government in office and Labour pressure in opposition. Against the dogged resistance to change, we should have pitted a stronger will to change. I conclude that a move to the Left is needed.

  Anthony Crosland

  Moving, Government, Should Have

  Anthony Crosland (1974). “Socialism now and other essays”, Jonathan Cape

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• In our time ... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you must understand were far more imaginative than our tiny bureaucrats. They spoke from mountaintops not from tiny airless offices. They rode clouds. They were possessed of passion. They had voices and names. Six thousand years of civilization have brought us to this.

  Chaim Potok

  Passion, Winning, Men

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• The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Honor, President, Vices

  "Random Recollections of an Old Political Reporter". Book by William C. Hudson, 1911.

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• If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Political, Democracy, Doe

  "Diary of a Bad Year". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2007.

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• Isn't the Democratic Party the official SODOMIZER PROTECTION ASSOCIATION of AMERICA -- oh, I forgot, it was just an accident that Clintoon's[sic] first act in office was to promote "gays in the military." RAGHEADS are Boy-Bumpers as clearly as they are Women-Haters -- it all goes together.

  Jerome Corsi

  Military, Party, Gay

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• [I]n 1938, Superman appeared. He had been mailed to the offices of National Periodical Publications from Cleveland, by a couple of Jewish boys who had imbued him with the powers of a hundred men, of a distant world, and of the full measure of their bespectacled adolescent hopefulness and desperation.

  Michael Chabon

  Couple, Boys, Men

  "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, 2000.

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• Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.

  Glen Duncan

  Life, Party, Yarn

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• Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper so that he is at no time independent of one technique or another. In sport the citizen of the technical society finds the same spirit, criteria, morality, actions and objectives in short, all the technical laws and customs which he encounters in office or factory.

  Jacques Ellul

  Sports, Independent, Law

  "The Technological Society". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, p. 384, 1964.

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• There's something about being there, on the set, in costume, in the moment, where you start to get a feel for the scene, which is not the same as sitting in your office writing it.

  Lionel Wigram

  Writing, Sitting, Costumes

  Source: collider.com

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• We [The United States] believe the Iranian people want a future of freedom and human rights: the right to vote, to run for office, to express their views without fear and to pursue political causes. We would welcome the progress, prosperity and freedom of the Iranian people.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Running, Believe, Rights

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office.

  Robin Thicke

  Jobs, Nine, Normal

  "Hot Tracks: Robin Thicke". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 2013.

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