Functionary Quotes

#1. As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist I consider myself to have been mobilized by Party propaganda and deem it my duty to participate actively in the work of our press.

Leonid Brezhnev

#2. ANOINT, v.t.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good.

Liu Shaoqi

#3. I was glad to be rid of him. He was one of those people who could go to New York and be "fascinating," but here in his own world he was just a cheap functionary, and a dull one at that.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. What must never be lost sight of is that a public functionary, in his capacity as functionary, produces absolutely nothing; that, on the contrary, he exists only on the products of the industrious class; and that he can consume nothing that has not been taken from the producers.

Charles Dunoyer

#5. There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.

Arthur Middleton

#6. The government is a functionary of the corporations - and there's nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s talking about the army basically working for Wall Street in all of these countries [it invades].

Henry Rollins

#7. A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.

Hannah Arendt

#8. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

Sebastian Pinera

#10. A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people, he said, were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.

Paul Johnson

#11. So long as the paternal plan to make a State functionary contradicted my own inclinations only in the abstract, the conflict was easy to bear.

Adolf Hitler

#12. Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

Ambrose Bierce

#13. LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper ... the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species.

Ambrose Bierce

#14. It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.

William Thomas Stead

#15. There was a brass plate mounted on the door at eye level, so old that the lettering that had once been engraved there had been reduced to a spidery, unreadable code, the name of some long dead function or functionary, polished into oblivion.

William Gibson

#16. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.

Margaret Atwood

#17. There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

Ashton Kutcher

#18. If you start a successful company in China at 11 A.M., by 2 P.M. there's three more companies like it.

Douglas Leone

#19. When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.

Emmy Rossum

#20. I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

Horatio Nelson

#21. I'm your worst damn nightmare, Skeletor. I'm a vampire killer with fangs and a grudge.

Rachel Caine

#22. The keyboard is my journal.

Pharrell Williams

#23. the gate around
heaven was
crowded when we
arrived together.
you looked at me
and giggled
and with whiskey on
your rose breath
you led me to some
place higher.

i always knew you were
beyond them.
i just wasn't sure
how far.

Christopher Poindexter

#24. If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion. And as I have gotten older, I came to understand, that a person's sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with their ability to be a good parent.

Ronnie Musgrove

#25. Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior and champion you envision yourself to be.

Gene Simmons

#26. Maxims serve the wise;
folly enslaves fools.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. Handguns are a public-health problem.

Josh Sugarmann

#28. Falling in love was not really a choice; it just struck me.

Helen Fisher