Underlings Quotes

#1. The Church needs a firm hierarchy and is forced to distrust such of her underlings as show a tendency to become too holy.

Gabriel Chevallier

#2. People in powerful positions come under scrutiny, and sometimes they get in trouble for things that their underlings did.

Anna Holmes

#3. Hence, you are infinitely more than you imagine, subjects [or underlings] of gadgets and instruments of all kinds - ranging from the microscope, to radio and television - that will become elements of your being.

Lacan Jacques M.

#4. The friendship between officers is tarnished by the need for one or another to be promoted. The kindness of a captain is predicated on the obedience and efficiency of his underlings.

Sara Sheridan

#5. Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

William Shakespeare

#6. We are only underlings of fate if we choose to let the wills of others shape our lives."
-Thomas Richards

Josi S. Kilpack

#7. We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.

James Gleick

#8. When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#9. Every major criminal case is always built from the bottom up. You get the underlings, you get them to plead and cooperate, and that leads to the higher-ups.

Michael Isikoff

#10. Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The PR person came and went. It was just Michael and me and the kids. And it was very interesting.

Geraldo Rivera

#11. As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives.

Wilfrid Sheed

#12. I think one should be antagonistic to one's underlings. It keeps them on their toes.
~Soi Fon

Tite Kubo

#13. Underlings should always be uncomfortable in the presence of their superiors," said the Emperor. "Don't you agree?

Paul S. Kemp

#14. Chomsky is like the teenager who first discovers that those in authority - his parent, his teacher - are not as all-knowing as they claim to be and as their underlings once imagined them to be, and who persists in endlessly showing them up

Jeffrey C. Isaac

#15. Some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

Helen Gurley Brown

#16. Isn't this a sight," Friedrich said, darting in front of them. "My Lady Love and my underlings," he said, glowering at his men.

K.M. Shea

#17. Carrot started to clap.
It wasn't the clap used by middlings to encourage underlings to applaud overlings. It had genuine enthusiasm behind it which was, somehow, worse.

Terry Pratchett

#18. The newspaper warns us about terrorist anthrax bombs and virulent new strains of meningitis, and the only comfort newspapers can offer is a coupon for 20 cents off on underarm deodorant.

Chuck Palahniuk

#19. I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am.

Tom Hopkins

#20. Pedagogy and Equality are always trumped by Maternity.

Jessica Brockmole

#21. This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

Lee Grant

#22. You want your customers to value your service.

Jeff Bezos

#23. Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.

Jeanette Winterson

#24. There's the physical world . . . but there's also our own private inner worlds, the world of our thoughts. A world made of ideas instead of stuff. It's just as real as our world, but it's inside.

Joe Hill

#25. I barely took a moment to appreciate nature. Come to think of it, the
only time I did it was when I was so upset I wanted to commit suicide in the
Huang Pu river.

Vann Chow

#26. I wish I didn't want the exotic man who knows the entire history of jazz, and instead wanted the teacher, who has his flaws but whose kindness is as rare as genius.

Merritt Tierce

#27. When something tragic happens in the world and I realize that, for the most part, I am powerless to stop it.

Mike Colter

#28. This watching through cool intent eyes and delicately adjusting one factor or another till a man's fundamental instinct for self-preservation cracks, is savagery in its most pure, most polished and most highly evolved form.

Tana French