Short Administration Quotes

#1. You may never see a Rembrandt or the Sistine Chapel, but aren't you glad as a human being they are still there? Probably the only thing that separates us from other creatures is that we aren't limited by our basic needs, like food and water; we have this sense of the whole.

George N. Atiyeh

#2. Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.

Oswald Chambers

#3. The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

Elizabeth Janeway

#4. Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.

Austin Ligon

#6. It is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

Edith Sitwell

#7. I was lucky enough to be in some movies where I had powerful characters or I got to be the president on TV for a little while. Very short administration.

Geena Davis

#8. Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.

John Spratt

#9. It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.

Laura Bailey

#10. How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.

Dave Eggers

#11. Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration.

Corrine Brown

#12. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

Abraham Lincoln

#13. Beautiful breezes in ugly parts of town give hope to those who want to be free.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#14. How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding.

Sherman Alexie

#15. The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2% over the past three years, and the consensus outlook appears no better for the year ahead.

Glenn Hubbard

#16. I hardly know you, Augustus Waters. You could be an ax murderer

John Green

#17. Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.

Kwame Nkrumah

#18. She was working at her computer in her office, doing admin, which is short for administration, which is short for migraine-stimulant.

Ali Smith

#19. THE END IS NOT NEAR
IT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED
WE JUST DIDN'T CARE

David Wong