Quotes of Staff - somelinesforyou

“ So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path. ”

- George Herbert

“ It took a long time for me to convince my staff people to leave me unscheduled from 2:00 to 4:00 everyday. And I need to do that as mayor. I need to schedule accessibility time. ”

- Dick Murphy

“ Our pitching staff is a conspiracy of ifs. ”

- Branch Rickey

“ Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. ”

- Bill Vaughn

“ Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ”

- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

“ We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. ”

- Ken Kesey

“ Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. ”

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

“ The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. ”

- Pierre Corneille

“ Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cape of good fortune. ”

- James Weldon Johnson

“ Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch. ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ And the wand-like lily which lifted up, As a Maenad, its moonlight-coloured cup, Till the fiery star, which is its eye, Gazed through clear dew on the tender sky. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power. ”

- John Milton

“ This hairy meteor did announce The fall of sceptres and of crowns. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches. ”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“ You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. ”

- Ed Meese

“ 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

“ One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind. ”

- Jean Kerr

“ A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. ”

- George Herbert

“ Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ If you're good to your staff when things are going well, they'll rally when times go bad. ”

- Mary Kay Ash

“ Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem. ”

- Bill Vaughan

“ My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA. ”

- Jack Higgins
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