Deputation Allowance Quotes

#1. This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?

Thomas Pynchon

#2. In a free society, the 'vision thing' is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a 'visionary' bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government ... the poorer and less free the people.

Ilana Mercer

#3. ... she said she would not sign any deposition containing the word "amorous" instead of "advances". For her the difference was of crucial significance, and one of the reasons she had separated from her husband was that he had never been amorous but had consistently made advances.

Heinrich Boll

#4. And at every moment as I lived my life, I countered this awareness with an exasperated companion thought, namely, Don't be an idiot. You're not a girl. Get over it. But I never got over it.

Jennifer Finney Boylan

#5. Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.

Charles Baudelaire

#6. When you have to earmark human and monetary resources for such a long time, it starts to hinder your other activities.

Ratan Tata

#7. The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds.

Elizabeth Prentiss