Quotes of Office - somelinesforyou

“ No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ”

- Aesop

“ I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. ”

- Rita Rudner

“ Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. ”

- Aesop

“ Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers. ”

- Andrew Grove

“ Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to 3.30 during which they will do more than the 9-5ers. ”

- Chris Brasher

“ The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office. ”

- Mae West

“ What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? ”

- Harriet Martineau

“ When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. ”

- Jimmy Breslin

“ He brings a gust of acrid provincial air to the ancient office. He is an angry young prophet rather than a smooth courtier. His verse is angular, savage, robust and very good. ”

- Philip Howard

“ I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle. ”

- Richard M. Nixon

“ I took a look around the office. I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again. ”

- Richard M. Nixon

“ Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation. ”

- Charles Ruff

“ The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ Ask not what the role can do for you; ask what you can do for the role. ”

- Ricardo Montalban

“ Our long-term goal is to minimize dependence on fossil fuels, and we will get there by deploying a wide variety of new automotive technologies in our fleet. ”

- Robert Hall

“ I think the (recreation) department is well set up for the next person that comes in. It will be a smooth transition... the programs won't suffer. ”

- James Morris

“ The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality. ”

- Talcott Parsons

“ Every library is an arsenal. ”

- Robert Ingersoll

“ Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac. ”

- Bela Lugosi

“ If she ever campaigned for office and wanted me to go ringing doorbells for her, I'd be happy to do it. ”

- Bill Clinton

“ We have a lot of history together and it's all been good,... I have a high regard for Tom, everyone knows that. He's a great competitor. We're on opposite sides of the fence right now, but that doesn't have anything to do with how I feel about him personally or how I think he feels about me. ”

- Bill Parcells

“ Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling. ”

- Woodrow Wilson

“ The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal — that you can gather votes like box tops — is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson

“ A few years ago, a fellow professor stopped at my door and said, You're here in your office more than my full-time colleagues, and I replied, Writers don't retire, they just go out of print. With electronic publication, even that doesn't have to happen. ”

- James Gunn

“ What drew me to Office Space was just doing something totally different. Almost theatre-like, completely over the top, a real departure from News Radio. I think I am conservative, not eccentric. I don't have any inhibitions about making a fool of myself, but you have to, to be in comedy. ”

- Stephen Root

“ And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham: / But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises. ”

- Bible

“ Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known. ”

- Confucius
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