Office Quotes - Page 13

• How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.

  Susanna Clarke

  Book, Asking, Benefits

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.544, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Children, Thinking, Years

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• I go into the office in the morning, I sue Barack Obama, and then I go home.

  Greg Abbott

  Morning, Home, Barack

  "Ted Cruz 2016 speculation grows after New Hampshire announcement" by Tom Dart, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2013.

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• I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

  John Milton

  Education, War, Men

  "Paradise Lost and Other Poems".

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• Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel According to the Blues, Gary brings his vocation as a New Testament teacher together with his passion for the blues and gives the reader scholarly knowledge and wise insight.

  Steve Stockman

  Wise, Teacher, Book

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• Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business. And what that sends to my generation is, one day, you can just wake up and run for Senate, no matter how [much] lack of experience you have.

  Meghan McCain

  Running, Real, One Day

  "O'Donnell and Coons". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. October 17, 2010.

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• The Foreign Office knows no secrets.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Secret, Knows

  A. J. P. Taylor (2001). “English History 1914-1945”, p.603, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

  Eliza Farnham

  Art, Grace, Life Is

  Eliza Wood Farnham (1864). “Woman and Her Era”, p.122

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• Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it

  Galen

  Artist, Years, People

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• The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

  Tacitus

  Evil, Deeds, Action

  "Annales" (AD 117), III. 65,

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• My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state

  Jim Garrison

  Country, Book, Law

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• I'd rather violate every one of the damn conventions and see my bills passed, than sit back in my office, all nice and proper, and watch 'em die.

  Huey Long

  Nice, Watches, Ems

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• I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.

  April Winchell

  Running, Giving, Unfair Advantage

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• I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.

  Daniel Tammet

  Feelings, Style, Important

  "A genius explains". Interview with Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2005.

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• At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well have made it more rather than less democratic than many countries today - and each candidate for office competed as an individual. Only rarely did they advocate specific policies, although commenting on issues of current importance was more common. In the main voters looked more for a capable individual who once elected could do whatever the State required.

  Adrian Goldsworthy

  Country, Party, Rome

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• The person who really needs the psychotherapy (...) is not the homosexual youngster who gets dragged to the psychiatrist's office by his mother, but the mother, to releive her anxieties about his homosexuality.

  Frank Kameny

  Mother, Gay, Anxiety

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• If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses power, he must possess wisdom. He becomes converted to the seductive thesis that election to public office endows the official with both power and wisdom. At this point, he begins to lose his ability to distinguish between what is morally right and what is politically expedient.

  Ben Moreell

  Long, Seductive, Election

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• Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered. After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.

  Steven Hatfill

  Letters, Fields, Anthrax

  "Text of Hatfill's Statement", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

  Yahoo Serious

  Years, Two, Numbers

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

  Yahoo Serious

  Real, Devil, Orbit

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him to go on and get out of there. But there are a few little rituals that have to be observed. One of them is that the president must host the incoming president in the White House, smile as if they love each other and give the American people the idea that democracy is peaceful and honourable and there will be a good transfer of power

  Nancy Gibbs

  White, Ideas, People

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.502, Simon and Schuster

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• In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Hate, Winning, White

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.

  James L. Buckley

  People, Appreciate, Vote

  James L. Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.244, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Aztec has played a big part in delivering the solutions that our Dallas office has spent timeless hours and energy searching for.

  Blake Lewis

  Aztec, Energy, Dallas

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• The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.

  Ted Olson

  Morning, Believe, Two

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