Quotes About Official

I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line.

In a large bureaucracy, it is vital to keep eyes on the grassroots as they almost always will give you warning of problems faster than official signals (which says a lot about official signals).

The Constitution of India recognizes twenty-two languages as 'official'. The most important of these is Hindi, which in one form or another is spoken by upwards of 400 million people.

The jury which informed Potter he would be drawn and quartered was not an undisciplined mob but an official body representing the interests of the Revolutionary government. Humiliation with barnyard symbolism—goose feathers or hog's dung—had regressed to archaic forms of torture.

I don't have a birth certificate.

I am a strong supporter of President Obama and was the first national Hispanic elected official to endorse him, and I want him to be reelected in 2012.

It's the unpredictable incidents between official events that add up to a life, the incalculable that gives it value.

There is still an active focus on media propaganda in the U.S. by Intelligence agencies to discredit conspiracy theories and solidify the official version of historical events;

In spring 1907, a Regulation for Women's Education was decreed, which made it official that women should receive education.

the Council of Constantinople that made Nicene orthodoxy the official religion of the empire in 381.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse.

A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude."

I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

Es tan tentador no creerse las versiones oficiales…

Often he would call to set up an interview—perhaps with an official. I wanted to meet the official in a place with rich sound. (Yes,

The crisis of liberalism (and of American political reflection) is due to liberalism's success in becoming the official language for all public statement.

Such was the mistrust of the official line, so heavy was the spin, that with any new piece of information you learned to do a kind of mental arithmetic whereby you divided the information given by the speaker's rank, multiplied by his or her time in-country, and subtracted based on the number of miles the speaker was distant from the fighting. From The Big Suck: Notes from the Jarhead Underground

lettres recommandées (registered letters)

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.