Quotes with office

  • The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
  • In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
  • Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.
  • It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
  • I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.
  • Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
  • Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.
  • Todd Palin's frequent presence in the governor's office led some in Juneau to call him the 'Shadow Governor.' But it had never been clear, at least to the public, what roles he played.
  • But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.
  • The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly veneration of wealth are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.
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  • Maureen Reagan I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • B. J. Novak 'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
    B. J. Novak
    American actor, writer, comedian, and director (1979 - )
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  • Alben W. Barkley A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office a Republican wants.
    Alben W. Barkley
    American lawyer and politician (1877 - 1956)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Hubert Humphrey A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • W. H. Auden A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Al Capp Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
    Al Capp
    American cartoonist and humorist (1909 - 1979)
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  • Cass Sunstein At least since 1947, the historical record seems to support a simple conclusion: If you want the American economy to grow, you ought to put a Democrat in the Oval Office.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Avi Arad But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Ben Carson But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Carlos Fuentes Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, My bombs are my books.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Ann Coulter Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Carol Shea-Porter During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust.
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  • Eliza Farnham 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
    American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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  • Aesop Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • William Shakespeare Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Barry Eisler 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
    American novelist
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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