Office Quotes - Page 39

• Tell your boss what you really think about him
  and the truth shall set you free.

  Patrick Murray

  Funny, Thinking, Boss

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• There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.

  Neal Boortz

  Depressing, Government, Waking

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• Speaking of earning, the revered 40-hour workweek is for losers. Forty hours should be considered the minimum, not the maximum. You don't see highly successful people clocking out of the office every afternoon at five. The losers are the ones caught up in that afternoon rush hour. The winners drive home in the dark.

  Neal Boortz

  Home, Successful, Dark

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• I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment - the sober second thought - of the people.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  People, President, Sober

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, March 01, 1878.

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• Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Character, Men, Betrayed

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• I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware that he knew I was in town.

  James A. Michener

  New Year, Texas, Years

  James A. Michener (2014). “Texas: A Novel”, p.25, Dial Press

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• The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Campaigns, Minorities, Campaign Finance

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• When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures. Only two color ones came out all right. My favorite picture of Marilyn hangs always on the wall in my office. It was taken on the little patio of her Hollywood house.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Wall, Taken, Black And White

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• As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.

  John Knox

  Blow, Touching, Earth

  "World Studies for Christian Schools". Book by Terri Koontz, 2000.

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• After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.

  Mary Cheney

  President, Vices, Sidelines

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• I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.

  Mary Cheney

  Jobs, Home, Colorado

  Mary Cheney (2006). “Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life”, Pocket Books

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• There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beautiful, Sleep, Typewriters

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• I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  People, Design, Add

  Jonathan Mayhew (1969). “Sermons: Seven Sermons: A Discourse, Concerning the Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers. The Snare Broken”

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• All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Spheres, Welfare, Ministers

  Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.33

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• They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in the fear of God.’ When once magistrates act contrary to their office, and the end of their institution when they rob and ruin the public, instead of being guardians of its peace … they immediately cease to be the ordinance and ministers of God, and no more deserve that glorious character than common pirates and highwaymen.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Character, Pirate, Buffets

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• 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 far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

  David Cone

  Thinking, Skeletons, Serious

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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 wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

  Al Franken

  Wish, Prison, More Time

  Al Franken (2002). “Oh, the Things I Know!”, p.15, Penguin

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• There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer.

  Denis Hayes

  Years, Volunteer, Environmental

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• You mean to say that when an imbecile walks into a church, office, day care center, or school, stumbling about, almost zombie-like, with gun-filled hands at his side, blabbering incoherently to his next victim, the reaction of grown men and women is to run, cry, whimper, and hide under a desk or pew? The sheeping of America is nearly complete.

  Ted Nugent

  Running, School, Mean

  Ted Nugent (2001). “God, Guns & Rock'N'Roll”, p.43, Regnery Publishing

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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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• I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.

  George J. Mitchell

  Military, Agency, Germany

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• I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.

  Dale Murphy

  Running, Utah, Enough

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