Office Quotes And Sayings

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Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron.
~By Lizzie Andrew Borden ~


High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~


Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.
~By Leland Stanford ~


Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
~By Enid Nemy ~


I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
~By Barack Obama ~


The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~


The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~


I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.
~By Mikhail Baryshnikov ~


Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years.
~By James Roosevelt ~


The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
~By Sarah Palin ~


A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.
~By Grace Napolitano ~


Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.
~By William Graham Sumner ~


I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.
~By Alan Autry ~


I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
~By Maureen Reagan ~


A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.
~By Dean Kamen ~


I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.
~By Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ~


It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
~By Zane Grey ~


Today it's not culture; it's box office.
~By Alex North ~


I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.
~By Dick Cheney ~


After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.
~By Kenneth Starr ~


In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.
~By Grover Cleveland ~


Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment.
~By Hugh Grant ~


Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
~By Horatio Nelson ~


The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
~By Charles Edward Montague ~


They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.
~By Dave Van Ronk ~


It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings.
~By George Barr McCutcheon ~


One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.
~By Allison Janney ~


Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.
~By Steve Harvey ~


The party has to be rebuilt on all levels. In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've had a governor in office for 12 years and he and his people are stepping down.
~By Peter King ~


I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.
~By Cole Younger ~


Now, DVD can represent more income than the box office-and typically does.
~By Michael Nesmith ~


At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.
~By Janis Karpinski ~


I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.
~By James McGreevey ~


My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.
~By Douglass North ~


I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.
~By Kenneth Clarke ~


The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.
~By Michael Medved ~


I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
~By Kenneth Robert Livingstone ~


I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~


So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.
~By Charlize Theron ~


A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.
~By Mark Foley ~


I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
~By Andrew Jackson ~


Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.
~By Anthony Wayne ~


When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.
~By Douglass North ~


The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
~By Emo Philips ~


Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.
~By Geena Davis ~


No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
~By H. L. Mencken ~


In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.
~By Omar N. Bradley ~


After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.
~By James Tobin ~


I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.
~By Michael Fassbender ~


The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.
~By John Cusack ~


I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.
~By Trent Lott ~


My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don't know me much as a singer.
~By Robert Guillaume ~


As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.
~By Rosie Perez ~


The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any.
~By Charles Foster Bass ~


The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
~By Herbert Hoover ~


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.
~By Neal Boortz ~


Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
~By Horatio Nelson ~


Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
~By James Longstreet ~


Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.
~By Antonio Villaraigosa ~


I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.
~By Marc Jacobs ~


As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~


Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'
~By Paul Ryan ~


The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs.
~By Mathias Rust ~


A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
~By Jack Adams ~


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.
~By Avi Arad ~


Since September 11, 2001, many in this nation and this Congress have a deeper appreciation for the importance of the sacrifices made by our law enforcement officers.
~By Jerry Costello ~


No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.
~By Daryl Gates ~


My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.
~By Derek Jeter ~


I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.
~By Gabriela Sabatini ~


It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~


If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
~By Laura Bush ~


With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.
~By Louis Auchincloss ~


You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.
~By Eleanor Clift ~


I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.
~By Rick Perry ~


I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
~By E. B. White ~


It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
~By William Weld ~


Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us.
~By George Takei ~


I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way.
~By Holly Hunter ~


A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.
~By Helmut Jahn ~


What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
~By Richard J. Daley ~


We don't have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in.
~By Jay Chiat ~


The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~


No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.
~By Thomas Dewey ~


I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.
~By George Pataki ~


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.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~


To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.
~By Elena Kagan ~


It's easier to run for office than to run the office.
~By Thomas P. O'Neill ~


Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.
~By Pete Rozelle ~


Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.
~By Jared Sparks ~


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.
~By Ted Olson ~


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.
~By Katharine Whitehorn ~


Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.
~By Gwen Ifill ~


I generally wake up, exercise and read through a huge amount of newspapers. I get to the office somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 - my brothers and I are always the first ones in.
~By Ivanka Trump ~


That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.
~By Charles Hodge ~


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.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~


This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.
~By Robert Shea ~


My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
~By Jack Adams ~


Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.
~By Bill Scott ~


I give no more paroles to British officers.
~By Christopher Gadsden ~


If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~

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