Top 100 Quotes About Office
#1. From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
Barry Eisler
#2. Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out ... and she said, So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control.
Laura Munson
#3. I'd be lying if I said that I knew I was there. I'm being completely honest. Nobody has a right in my view to seek Presidents office unless they are willing to give it 110 percent of who they are.
Joe Biden
#4. You don't come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have a good time with.
Helen Fisher
#5. As we walked to Fr Walsh's office, Sting asked me what I thought our punishment might be. I had just been beaten for the missing page fiasco, and he told me, straight-faced, that his last thrashing was because his dad was a milkman.
James Berryman
#6. I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'
Marianne Williamson
#7. The man billed as Prospero the Enchanter receives a fair amount of correspondence via the theater office, but this is the first envelope addressed to him that contains a suicide note, and it is also the first to arrive carefully pinned to the coat of a five-year-old girl.
Erin Morgenstern
#8. The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight.
John F. Kennedy
#9. Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber
And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer.
Ani DiFranco
#10. Sitting in the empty classroom and listening to the faraway sounds of noisy students in the cafeteria, I was reminded of feeling sick in class and being sent to the school nurse. The nurse's office had that same muffled sense of distance, like a satellite to the loud planet that was the school.
Maggie Stiefvater
#11. There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will become box-office successes or top prizewinners. I call this internal mechanism my Built-In Hit Detector.
Richard Corliss
#12. When Mrs. Clinton ran for office, she promised economic growth across New York state, to bring in more than 200,000 jobs, ... She has not. We have lost jobs to outsourcing and globalization and to sending our jobs and industries to foreign countries.
David Brenner
#13. Jeremy [Corbyn] earned the right to take up the leadership of the party with a big majority. But he has failed and he has no right or mandate to stay in office despite his failure and take the party down with him.
Harriet Harman
#14. The problem of the tall office building is one of the most stupendous, one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature in His beneficence has ever offered to the proud spirit of man.
Louis Sullivan
#15. of elective office), the yearly term was voted in.
Stephen King
#16. Mr. Huang's nickname was Old Yellow, because that is what his name literally meant and he was the senior person in the office.
Theresa MacPhail
#17. Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.
Leland Stanford
#18. Take a few minutes."
"No. He's already had more of my time than he was entitled to."
Yes, he thought as she walked out of his office. Very much like her grandmother.
Nora Roberts
#19. See here, for our comfort, a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father giveth a commission to Christ; the Spirit furnisheth and sanctifieth to it; Christ himself executeth the office of a Mediator. Our redemption is founded upon the joint agreement of all three persons of the Trinity.
Richard Sibbes
#20. I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes,
my rage, forgetting everything,
I walk by, going through office buildings and orthopedic
shops,
and courtyards with washing hanging from the line:
underwear, towels and shirts from which slow
dirty tears are falling.
Pablo Neruda
#21. Was Philip Dexter upset?"
"He's telephoned the office every day."
She was pleased about that. "Who else was upset?"
"Everybody. Roosevelt orderded an hour of silence while you were on the table. Like Armistice Day.
Rose Franken
#22. The art of governing, Dickon, is that of making use of talent wherever you do find it. Trust is too rare an attribute to make it your prime prerequisite for holding office. If I relied only upon those I truly do trust, we'd have a council of empty chairs!
Sharon Kay Penman
#23. I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
Barbara Bush
#24. In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the same office.
Susanna Clarke
#25. I don't know how many times I've turned to Twitter and Facebook to commiserate and celebrate, bounce ideas off of friends, colleagues and other entrepreneurs, and just connect with the wider world outside my office.
Ryan Holmes
#26. The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes once met Moriarty and where this correspondent once shared an office with an 8-foot bathtub.
Morley Safer
#27. I understand why offices need to have office parties. I understand why offices need to have betting pools. No matter what the job, you need things to foster camaraderie and let off steam.
Drew Goddard
#28. It is often constructive to meet with a candidate for a particular office, but I believe what is most important is the candidate's track record.
Kenneth C. Griffin
#29. I go out every day. When I get depressed at the office, I go out, and as soon as I'm on the street and see people, I feel better. But I never go out with a preconceived idea. I let the street speak to me.
Bill Cunningham
#30. You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
Leopold Von Ranke
#31. I want nothing. Oh wait, I want you to get the couch out of my office, and then after that I want and need nothing from you again.
Tracie Redmond
#32. Sign by elevator put up by computer geeks in office building: REMEMBER: FIRST YOU PILAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM. In Mr Perfect
Linda Howard
#33. Busy replying to letters from divers office-seekers. They come by the dozens.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#34. Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.
Richard V. Allen
#35. I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.
William Ritter
#36. The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.
William Scranton
#37. Ms. Whitlock steps out and sizes me up, then Violet. "I'm only letting you in if you have a note, otherwise you can head to the office and hope they give you one.
Katie McGarry
#38. I don't begrudge rich people running for office. God knows that FDR and JFK both came from very wealthy families but I think did more to help impoverished Americans than anybody else.
Julie Roginsky
#39. The television was on Florida Cable News. A gray-haired man behind the anchor desk reported near tragedy at a state motor vehicle office, where a man who had failed the eye exam pulled a gun and fired fifteen shots at the staff, hitting nobody.
Tim Dorsey
#40. Now it was close to sunset and the earth was beginning to cool off in the manner of eternity and office girls were returning like penguins from Montgomery Street.
Richard Brautigan
#41. I've always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you've got scoundrels in office, you vote 'em out.
Rush Limbaugh
#42. The party out of office becomes the articulate one.
Mason Cooley
#43. Job happiness is directly proportional to the distance you are from the home office.
Nelson DeMille
#44. My office is committed to tearing down unlawful barriers to voting to ensure that all eligible voters are able to freely cast a ballot.
Eric Schneiderman
#45. Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#46. Yeah, I look at the box office as an indication as how many lives that you've touched, so my hope is touch as many lives as possible.
DeVon Franklin
#47. Nick spoke for the first time. "Can I go to the nurse's office too?"
Ms. Popplewell looked at him It obviously took her only one look to decide. "No."
"I'm traumatized too," Nick claimed, his voice completely flat.
"He's a delicate flower," Alan said under his breath.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#48. I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.
Harry S. Truman
#49. Fuck, can you give me a ride to Office Depot when I'm done with these dildos?
Jon Konrath
#50. When I ran for Presidency of the United States, I knew that this country faced serious challenges, but I could not realize - nor could any man realize who does not bear the burdens of this office - how heavy and constant would be those burdens
John F. Kennedy
#51. What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.
Matt Taibbi
#52. I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
Peter Ustinov
#53. I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.
Condoleezza Rice
#54. Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
James Levine
#55. When he returned to the Iron Man production office, Downey asked that Favreau be sure to place a Tesla Roadster in Tony Stark's workshop.
Ashlee Vance
#56. You sure? No one will know we're down there.' 'Makes no difference. The Environment office was closed when we left, and I never called ahead to the Porjus branch. It'll be fine though.
Adam Nevill
#57. Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by almost every President. I saw the figures - 34 out of 44 Presidents have called for a national day of prayer. Some of those who didn't have died in office.
James Dobson
#58. 9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.
Michelle Malkin
#59. I'm all about the crossover. The role doesn't necessarily have to be white or Latina or black. It could be anything. But it's hard in Hollywood, because sometimes it's all about the box office. Or all about looks and things like that. It's not about the story that they have to tell.
Rutina Wesley
#60. I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.'
Lee Child
#61. In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.
Davy Jones
#62. Chris Christie won by such a wide margin that pundits say this will give him the impetus he needs to run for president. And he's got a new slogan: 'Put the oval in the Oval Office.'
Jay Leno
#63. The walk-in privilege, to walk into the Oval Office and have a conversation with the president, is not something that everybody gets.
Josh Earnest
#64. Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.
Theresa May
#65. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered ...
Henry A. Kissinger
#67. We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?
Jodi Picoult
#68. I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being serious to intense to funny, depending on who is in the room.
Karan Johar
#69. 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.
Anita Diament
#70. Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government.
Jean Chretien
#71. Especially for people who are unknown, it's easier to get a TV show because you don't have to put a certain amount of people in movie theaters for a box office weekend. It's really difficult to get a great lead role in some big film, if nobody knows you.
Eve Hewson
#72. I don't care what anyone does, as long as they go through the copyright office.
Mose Allison
#73. The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
James F. Cooper
#74. Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#75. Now I get a very nice salary as a member of Congress, but when I'm in Washington, I sleep in my office.
Jason Chaffetz
#76. Are you telling me that sweet little woman who was in my office this afternoon writes porn?" Sean winced. "Dear god, don't call it porn." Grace
Lexi Blake
#77. Beckett stood in his office dressed to the nines: his best suit, cufflinks, amazing shoes, and expensive sunglasses. Underneath he had so many weapons that a good speed bump would blow him off the face of the earth.
Debra Anastasia
#78. The card was displayed in the post office window between 'Room to let, suit single professional person' and 'Kittens, 12 weeks old, litter trained'. Diana wouldn't have seen it if she hadn't been checking her reflection to see if her new jacket was creased.
Flick Merauld
#79. I hadn't really worked in an office before Shutterstock, so I didn't have the experience of building a culture, nor did I understand how important that is for attracting and retaining the best talent.
Jon Oringer
#80. I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.
Leslie Caron
#81. One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, by the Relief Office, I saw my people -As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me.
Woody Guthrie
#82. I just wish I could walk into my Senator's office and say, "Senator Dude, Um, we have a problem with these sicko scientists ... "
But then again, I don't think we have a Senator, do we? Is there a state where mutant freaks are represented? If so, let me know.
James Patterson
#83. When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.
Ronald Reagan
#84. Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
Harry S. Truman
#85. Over the last couple of decades, the personalization of the office changed dramatically ... there's an informality people often take for the absence of rules - which it's not.
Judith Martin
#86. If you are an office worker, exercise is not simply an antidote to stress or sedentary living. It is a training for the labour of work itself. It can help concentration, problem-solving skills and energy levels.
Damon Young
#87. Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.
Harold Holzer
#88. Has no prospects of being either, then you don't just need a remote position - you need a new job. Only the office can be secure Companies often go to great lengths to make employees
Jason Fried
#89. If you show a poetry professor your shiny new multiple choice teaching technology, he will invite you to exit his office.
Andrew Ng
#90. Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.
Michelle Malkin
#91. Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
Ted Turner
#92. Quite soon my office was a jumble of broken bits of rocks, and needles, and old monographs, all coated in fine, limy dust. I still work in an identical office today. Tidy people's eyes go all peculiar when they come into it. I have a special small padded seat for them to collapse into.
Richard Fortey
#93. All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare.
Jonathan Mayhew
#94. Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.
Richard M. Nixon
#95. When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.
Francis Ford Coppola
#96. stopped coming home for lunch. He just stayed in his office
Elizabeth Strout
#97. It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings.
George Barr McCutcheon
#98. You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment.
Stephen Breyer
#99. The day I feel like I'm at an office job is the day I'll quit performing in front of a camera.
Sasha Grey
#100. There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office.
Robin Thicke
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