Quotes on Office

They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.

The priest is not made. He must be born a priest; must inherit his office. I refer to the new birth-the birth of water and the Spirit. Thus all Christians must became priests, children of God and co-heirs with Christ the Most High Priest.

Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. This is not what you expect to find on the resume of a supreme being. It's what you expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.

He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.

When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.

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.

But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,_x000D_ _x000D_ Lives not alone immured in the brain;_x000D_ _x000D_ But, with the motion of all elements,_x000D_ _x000D_ Courses as swift as thought in every power,_x000D_ _x000D_ And gives to every power a double power,_x000D_ _x000D_ Above their functions and their offices.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war.

It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.