Office Quotes - Page 37

The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west.

When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.

It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.

Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.

What we tried to do in 13th was get to the bottom of that. What were they motivated by? But certainly the attention that the Attorney General's office paid to it allowed for there to be some dialogue across the aisle that I think were the first steps then in change.

The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.

Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.

It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

Hollywood's thinking is very typical. And it's just really predictable too. And I think at Hollywood, these box office movies are flopping. I mean, there hasn't been an original thought coming out of Hollywood since the '80s.

At Chelsea, a sacking is just another day at the office.

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.

The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office

I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.