Office Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?

  Nevil Shute

  Nice, Long, People

  Nevil Shute (1991). “Ruined City”

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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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• 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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• 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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• But I have made no plans to run for any office right now.

  Roy Moore

  Running, Made, Plans

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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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• 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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• Alan Ladd was a marvelous person in his simplicity. In so many ways we were kindred spirits. We both were professionally conceived through Hollywood's search for box office and the types to insure the box office. And we were both little people. Alan wasn't as short as most people believe. It was true that in certain films Alan would climb a small platform or the girl worked in a slit trench. We had no such problems together.

  Veronica Lake

  Girl, Believe, People

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

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• I recently had to wait two and a half hours in a doctor's office, just waiting to be seen. I literally was genuinely thinking 'Well, maybe this is a time loop.'

  Jane Espenson

  Thinking, Doctors, Two

  "Loopy". BBC Interview, bbc.adactio.com. 2002.

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• My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.

  B. Traven

  Book, Men, Important

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• If you like the post office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they're run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government.

  Arthur Laffer

  Running, Thinking, Government

  "Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" by Bob Cesca, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2009.

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• Sometimes it may seem to us that there is no purpose in our lives, that going day after day for years to this office or that school or factory is nothing else but waste and weariness. But it may be that God has sent us there because but for us, Christ would not be there. If our being there means that Christ is there, that alone makes it worthwhile.

  Caryll Houselander

  Life, God, Religious

  Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.74, Rowman & Littlefield

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• President David O. McKay put it beautifully when he said, speaking of mothers, 'This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the gift to love, and eagerness, yes, longing to express it in soul development, make motherhood the noblest office or calling in the world. . .' (Gospel Ideals, Salt Lake City: Improvement Era, 1953, pp. 453-54).

  H. Burke Peterson

  Mother, Children, Lakes

  H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

  Helmut Jahn

  Creativity, Space, Collaboration

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• Now DVD can represent more income than the box office - and typically does.

  Michael Nesmith

  Dvds, Doe, Income

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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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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• Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.

  Albert Pike

  Mean, Men, Two

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• I dug myself a garden, and a stray cat I grew to like would come around to sulk in the corn. I forced myself to seek new love, and for a while, I thought I'd found it with a girl from my office. She was molten in my bed, but she also suffered depressions that were very dear to her. She would often call just to sigh at me for two hours on the phone, wanting me to applaud her depth of feeling. I cut if off, then missed her, wishing that I'd at least had the sense to take her naked photograph.

  Wells Tower

  Girl, Cat, Cutting

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• I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  People, Public Office

  "LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa takes on big issues" by Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. July 26, 2011.

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• I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Politician, Seekers

  "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.

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• I like to think of myself as the Chris Benoit of the movie industry, capable of taking any picture and carrying it to box-office success. Take Garden State, without me that would have just been two hours of Portman doging.

  Zach Braff

  Garden, Thinking, Two

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• For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me with part of my music collection in my writing office. Since I do most of my writing outside in nature, we felt this shot was most representative.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Writing, Issues, Next

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• I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Yield, Done, Admiration

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• My worst day in the gym is still more fun than my best day in the office!

  Rob Mills

  Art, Fun, Worst

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