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Quotes About Official

Irony cleans away all those secret stains. Irony is the path that leads safely back to official realities.
~ Geoffrey Wall
A public official must understand from his first day in office that any show of initiative will signal the end of his career because he isn't there to be meritorious but to reach his level of incompetence with dignity.
~ Isabel Allende
El funcionario público debe comprender desde su primer día en la oficina que cualquier amago de iniciativa será el fin de su carrera, porque no está allí para hacer mérito, sino para alcanzar dignamente su nivel de incompetencia.
~ Isabel Allende
In conflict zones in particular, we need personnel who wear the badge of the United States, are a part of our official military command, and are always held accountable for their actions.
~ Jan Schakowsky
Official truths are often powerful illusions.
~ John Pilger
A barrel of laughs should be enough, but it's not. A good review is official and endures. A bad one is like a tub of Flora. It spreads easily and lasts for the whole festival.
~ Dominic Holland
I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick.
~ Sanjeev Bhaskar
Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.
~ Ali Babacan
Official scientific organizations have all turned obsessively to the diversity agenda.
~ Heather Mac Donald
I can not regulate Daryl Turner. He's a union official.
~ Ted Wheeler
I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.
~ Josefina Vázquez Mota
Why is everyone calling me Consort?" "Jim designated you as Consort in official papers. You don't want to be called Mate, calling you Alpha is confusing, and 'Beast Lady' makes people laugh.
~ Ilona Andrews
administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!
~ Mary Parker Follett
All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Dirk is like the German Moses, invincible and inspiring. That is why 'His Name Is Dirk' must be the Official Fan Song for Dirk Nowitzki.
~ Flula Borg
If the official community is interested in asking the private sector to take another look at Greece, then it will have to be only as part of a broader process of addressing the full range of sovereign debt issues in Europe.
~ Charles Dallara
How can you have the religion of the sovereign be the religion of the state if the sovereign belongs to many religions? And it's at that point, I think, historically, that you start to see people saying maybe the state should not associate itself with any religion. Maybe there shouldn't be any official religion.
~ Noah Feldman
On the one hand, I try to define myself and behave officially as a no-nonsense hyperrealist ferreting out the role of chance; on the other, I have no qualms indulging in all manner of personal superstitions. Where do I draw the line? The answer is aesthetics.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The vast distance between perceived reality and the official version of reality is characteristic of totalitarian systems. The state abolishes liberty and rights while claiming to uphold and defend them.
~ Chris Hedges
Whatever the threat posed by certain alien species, I believe we have much more to fear from our own kind. I, for one, would welcome an official disclosure to the effect that we share this planet with denizens of other planets. It might be just the sort of shock we need.
~ Timothy Good
At the hearings, the presiding senator kindly offered to have these documents inserted into the official transcript once they were found.
~ Kevin M. Kruse
Publishing the charter is a major milestone, because it is the first official document of your approval project.
~ Kim Heldman
So: as of 2011, after many decades of being the official and much-funded hypothesis, the Aryan Invasion Theory has still not been confirmed by even a single piece of archaeological evidence.
~ Koenraad Elst
Before a single human being set foot on this planet, God had already flung the door wide open, issued an official invitation, and put the welcome mat out.
~ Carolyn Custis James