Office Quotes - Page 31

I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.

As a general rule, it may be affirmed that the man who never intrigues for office may be most safely entrusted with office...Such a man cannot desire promotion unless he received it from the respectable part of the community, for he considers no other promotion to be honorable.

It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.

My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.

I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw.

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.

Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.

Hillary Clinton is probably one of the best prepared people to walk into the Oval Office certainly in a generation, with all the love and respect and admiration that I have for President Obama, and he's been a great president, going in he was nowhere nearly as prepared as Hillary Clinton.

Let's turn inflation over to the Post Office. That'll slow it down.

It's what I say all the time to my girls in the office here: The more they dress for sex, the less they will have love or sex.

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.

On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.

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

An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen.

Look well to the characters and qualifications of those you elect and raise to office and places of trust.

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

Great motivators are visible at the front and lead by their actions. Hiding in your office or mysteriously traveling all the time on unknown missions are sure ways to cause the focus of your team to disperse.

I am not the president; instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling.

The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.