Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Forbes

No one ever dies wishing they'd spent more time at the office.

Malachy McCourt

Corporations can deduct their planes, all their office expenses, their machinery, their computers and Teleprompters and whatever else they have. They can deduct their yachts, they can deduct their limousines, their planes, everything.

Epictetus

Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing.

Henry James

The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as aware of itself as possible, since that awareness quickens the mental demand, which thus in turn wanders further and further for pasture. This action on the part of the mind practically amounts to a reaching out for the reasons of its interest, as only by its ascertaining them can the interest grow more various. This is the very education of our imaginative life.

Helen Thomas

I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants...The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

Every week there were stories in the paper about people making more on their property than going into the office.

Eleanor Clift

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.

Chris Rankin

Officers immediately went to the school and everything was fine.

Nortel's Brampton office is only a shadow of what it used to be.

Another officer walked in when this was occurring.

There was a convoy of delegates that got trapped by the crowds, and the officers were trying to get them out,

Randy is qualified as a police officer for the state of Ohio, If he's called, he has got to go.

Charles Rangel

could have been done in a little office somewhere.

This is a big, big noise. They are using us to stay in office.

Andrew Card

They spend quality time together, just the two of them. I'll walk into the Oval Office and they're talking, and I'll walk out and shut the door.

Andrew Card

They spend quality time together, just the two of them, ... I'll walk into the Oval Office and they're talking, and I'll walk out and shut the door.

Jackie Cooper

They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

A lot of the stereotypes went away after Sept. 11 of us being rude and unwelcoming. For the first time, our police officers and our firefighters were a tourist attraction.

You said this to the police officer ?

There was no quid pro quo office space for cadavers. There simply wasn't.

Bill Belichick

It's kind of another day at the office evaluating.

It's everybody's backup. If the post office fails, then a lot of people are in trouble.

It's a sad coincidence, ... The corrections officers did what they were supposed to do.

Ian Roberts

It was some police officers who wanted to come and speak to me about Arron,

Gordon Gee

Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.

Herman Cain

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

Herbert Spencer

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

Henry David Thoreau

I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.

Henry David Thoreau

If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'

Jilly Cooper

It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.

Jessica Lange

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.