Quotes About Office

The secretary moved in to block Simon as I followed Thierry into the office. As the door closed, I heard her whisper, I think it's very sweet, you sticking up for your brother like that. I'm not trying to be sweet, Simon said, raising his voice so Thierry could hear. I'm trying to be fair. But apparently no one's interested in that.

A suitably sultry voice answered his office phone. I gave my name, and she checked to see if Mr. Walsh was in. Given that Grace said he was the only lawyer at his firm, one wouldn't think she'd need to check

His weekly golf game no longer keeps his love handles in check, he's recently resorted to a slight comb-over to cover that growing bald spot, he squints to avoid wearing the bifocals he hides in his desk drawer, and he spends his days in an office filled with decades-old sports trophies.

Woodrow Wilson was the first American president ever to leave the country during his term of office.

When he had read the papers, Gus loosened his tie and napped on the couch in the study next to the Oval Office.

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In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

Power always works from the corner office.

I would love to play the President. Give me the suit, give me the power, give me the oval office. That would be really fun.

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.

My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.

The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.

There are those in high office who talk pompously of 'limited nuclear strikes' and 'acceptable risks' of tens of millions of casualties, but I suggest that anyone capable of such bizarre calculations is patently insane – in the old legal meaning of insanity as loss of conscience, or moral disability.

Then, as now, neatness in dress and form, with a strict conformity to the rules, were the qualifications required for office, and I suppose I was found not to excel in any of these.

Every culture I've ever been subjected to appears to be frightened," he explains. "I've been working as a psychotherapist for 20 years, and if I could boil down every problem that ever walked through any office that I've occupied—and this includes when I've been alone in the office—every human being suffers from two things in varying degrees of intensity, two things that are taught to us. They're called self-doubt and fear.

He left his office and made a beeline for the lounge and the coffee machine. He was reasonably certain that caffeine wasn't going to help in this instance, but as his dad had always told him, it couldn't hurt.

Back at the house, first things first. Phone the office. Nothing. No news being bad news for the Kemplays and Clare, good news for me.

Techno-systems Inc. occupies the top thee floors of a building so modern it looks like it must have been finished this morning. Yet compared to the interior of their offices, the rest of the building looks like a prewar colonial. Techno clearly wants to convey the impression that they are on the cutting edge, and for all I know, they may be. I wouldn't recognize the cutting edge if I sliced my finger on it.

He relents and says he'll meet with me tomorrow in his Manhattan office. That will give me time to do a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for the parking.

The most basic office we hold is indeed that of divine image. Respect for authority must begin with this authoritative office, in which all the other offices find their focus and point of origin. This indeed is the grain of truth to be found in the contemporary ideology of human rights, as manifested in both practical jurisprudence and popular culture.

I would have waited outside if I'd known, since the potential for really awkward conversation seems pretty high in the waiting room of a psychiatrist's office.

Do not think to be leader in office; think to be leader in your own business.

If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.

Two o'clock found us sitting in Julian's office high atop Sarasota's only true skyscraper—One Sarasota Place. The office was impressive—an elaborate desk, expensive furniture and carpet, subdued lighting, fancy media wall. Normally, I enjoyed the panoramic view of the bay, the Keys, the Gulf. That day, I could have cared less.