Office Quotes - Page 23

• No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

  Franklin Knight Lane

  Jobs, Men, Should Have

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• I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.

  Franklin Knight Lane

  Baby, Nine, Six

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• I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.

  Bob Corker

  Running, Thinking, Parent

  "Republican Bob Corker Is Senate's Deal Maker". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. March 8, 2010.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If George Bush [Jr.] decided he was going to turn the troops loose on Syria and Iran after that he would last in office for about 15 minutes. In fact if President Bush were to try that now even I would think that he ought to be impeached. You can't get away with that sort of thing in this democracy.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Thinking, Iran, Democracy

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• Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

  John Milton

  Marriage, May, Blame

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.81

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• Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil
  All offices of death, except to kill.

  John Donne

  Pain, Sleep

  "John Donne: The Major Works".

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• If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Struggle, Government, People

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• Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.

  Juvenal

  Military, Men, Long Ago

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• I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

  Frank Auerbach

  Thinking, Creative, Desire

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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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• 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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• From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

  Barry Eisler

  Thinking, Spy, Exotic

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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 am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office myself.

  Jack L. Chalker

  Two, Unsuccessful, Democrat

  "Dance Band on the Titanic".

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• I don't need to go into office for the power. I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats... beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family... I am making a sacrifice.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Beautiful, Airplane, Sacrifice

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• I'd come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted one of the bedrooms into my workspace and through its windows watched the wildlife appear each morning with the sunrise. Many were the days I would sit in wonder, coffee in hand, for hours.

  David Mixner

  Country, Morning, Inspiration

  "At Home With Myself in a World of AIDS" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.

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• Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Important, Boxes, Ashamed

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• I would like to accept this recognition on behalf of all the staff members that that I’ve been associated with; all of the office people behind the scenes who never get credit and make this game so great along with the great coaches and players.

  Lou Lamoriello

  Player, Games, People

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• It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Views

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1287, Delphi Classics

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• My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.

  William J. Clinton

  Moving, Wife, New Day

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• There are only four types of officer. First, there are the lazy, stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm…Second, there are the hard- working, intelligent ones. They make excellent staff officers, ensuring that every detail is properly considered. Third, there are the hard- working, stupid ones. These people are a menace and must be fired at once. They create irrelevant work for everybody. Finally, there are the intelligent, lazy ones. They are suited for the highest office.

  Erich von Manstein

  Stupid, Hard Work, Intelligent

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