Officialdom Quotes

#1. Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

Martha Gellhorn

#2. The brutal intrusion of officialdom into private devastation.

Robert Galbraith

#3. The protocol things, the officialdom, are part of my work. But it doesn't take more than 20 percent of my time. The majority of my time I spend on issues that I care about.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#4. Siberia taught Dostoyevsky much that would be fictionalized in Demons, including criminal speech, the criminal mind and the ways of officialdom.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink.

Joseph Conrad

#6. In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

Liu Xiaobo

#7. Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.

Binyavanga Wainaina

#8. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

Taylor Caldwell

#9. The space between the young reader's eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.'

Terry Pratchett

#10. If high-tech companies are serious about doing the right thing, they can join together and lobby for more transparency and accountability in the way in which Chinese officialdom deals with Internet services.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#11. I imagined my first night alone in bed with my stranger. I conjured our future years together unhampered by worries about money or officialdom. We would enjoy the day, the night, a smile, a word, a kiss, a glance. All lovely thoughts. All pointless dreams.

Lisa See

#12. Liao writes with the courage of a man who knows loss and doesn't fear it. There is nothing to make him notice like an official injunction against noticing, nothing to make him listen like official deafness, nothing that drives him to make us see like the blindness that officialdom seeks to impose.

Liao Yiwu

#13. Acknowledgemen t of what you feel, what you know, what you need is the first step toward healing.

Iyanla Vanzant

#14. As a result, Italians who today bear illustrious noble names are not necessarily the progeny of nobility but may be instead the descendants of poor Jews who sought a new life by passing through the doors of the Catechumens. Of

David I. Kertzer

#15. The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

Joshua Jackson

#16. You have to be a little crazy to be a dancer.

Elizabeth Berkley

#17. This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

Walter Raleigh

#18. I used to worry about losing my husband to another woman. Now, I'm more afraid of losing my nanny to another woman.

Sybil Adelman

#19. The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.

Diane Cilento