Committee Meetings Quotes

#1. Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Henry James

#2. After a couple of years of death by bureaucratic snu-snu (too many committee meetings, too many tedious IT admin jobs)

Charles Stross

#3. Because sometimes, you have to fight for someone even when they're not in the game.

Libby Kirsch

#4. Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.

Elliott Abrams

#5. It began with meetings, five months before the Apollo 11 launch. The newly formed Committee on Symbolic Activities for the First Lunar Landing gathered to debate the appropriateness of planting a flag on the moon.

Mary Roach

#6. The masculine heart needs a place where nothing is prefabricated, modular, nonfat, zip lock, franchised, on-line, microwavable. Where there are no deadlines, cell phones, or committee meetings. Where there is room for the soul.

John Eldredge

#7. The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs.

Michael Arrington

#8. It matters that women teach women, and that they do so with excellence.

Jen Wilkin

#9. Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body.

Virginia Graham

#10. Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George F. Will

#11. 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.

Louis Auchincloss

#12. All important problems (of course, not the unimportant, trivial problems, or problems whose solutions have already been decided after discussion at meetings and need only be carried out) must be submitted to the committee for discussion,

Mao Zedong

#13. Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.

John Twelve Hawks

#14. There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.

John Reid

#15. The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up.

Charles Stross

#16. We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

J.K. Rowling

#17. Manipulation works so well on a personal level, I don't see why it wouldn't be an equally viable national policy." "That's actually how most rulership works," Ham mused. "What is a governement but an institutionalized method of making sure somebody else does all the work?

Brandon Sanderson

#18. If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.
[Apology to the international anti-submarine committee for being absent from several meetings during World War I.]

Ernest Rutherford

#19. Yeah god speaks to me sometimes... mostly he mumbles. I'm not sure he knows who I am.

Aaron Safronoff