Office Quotes

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office then.

You are a real champion. You talk a lot over the past six months and it is going to be great to show you inside the ring how it is better to resolve wars. Let's talk in the office.

As for meetings, I think the President-elect [Donald Trump] should be given an opportunity to first form his administration and assume office. Meetings will come next.

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

I write in a small office at home.

If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.

I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.

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.

There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.

... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.

Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President.

Great offices will have great talents.

In many offices it could take several days to find a paper chart and some we'll never find. Ten percent of the paper records are never found. So you have this huge delay in time.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

In my office, I like it quiet, so I can concentrate.

My home office and workshop are on an overlook on the only deep river gorge on the entire length of the Mississippi River.

What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.

Remember, Republican economic policies quadrupled the debt before I took office and doubled it after I left. We simply can't afford to double-down on trickle-down.

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.

I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.

I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.

Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.

Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.

Donald Trump behaving like a wild man. I mean, I just can't imagine that people want a human tornado sitting in the oval office.

The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.

I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.

I don't go to see many comedies anymore, because I guess it feels like another day at the office.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)

the first place smelled like work, so I took the second

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.

This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions.

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

The smell of new office supplies is so satisfying while being kicked out of Staples for inappropriate behavior with a file folder is so embarrassing.

Formal business situations are likely to be the least revealing because these are the times when all of us are most likely to have our ‘game faces' on.

What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?

Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.

Shame comes in different doses.

It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.

Don’t mock my suggestions, Ridley – one day in the near future, they might just save your life.” Maxwell D. Kalist.

Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.

Every time I so much as blink you get an erection.

To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.

You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.

Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people – and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?

Secrets are dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.