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Quotes About Official

All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.
~ Albert Einstein
Officially, he was no longer a victim, he was a criminal
~ Edward Humes
Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied.
~ Edward T. Cheyfitz
It turns out that the governor of California has more authority to name appointees than any elected official in America except the president of the United States and the mayor of Chicago. The
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sometimes, if I need assistance on the government level, I can appeal through official channels. For example, when I bought the New Jersey Nets, President Medvedev raised the issue with President Obama, who voiced support for the idea, which is always a nice thing to have going for us.
~ Mikhail Prokhorov
they give me the same sense of being official, public, godly utterances which the preacher stands behind but as a human being somehow does not stand in. Whatever passionate and private experience their sermons may have come from originally, you are given little or no sense of what that private experience was. At their best they bring many strengths with them into the pulpit but rarely, as I listened to them anyway, their real lives.
~ Frederick Buechner
Having served as California's top elections official, I've been fighting back against Trump's 'Big Lie' and conspiracy theories about the integrity of our elections for years.
~ Alex Padilla
It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said.
~ David Letterman
Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.
~ Jose Saramago
And what did I amount to, once the official version gained ground? An edifying legend. A stick used to beat other women with.
~ Margaret Atwood
I almost gasp: he's said a forbidden word. Sterile. There is no such thing as a sterile man anymore, not officially. There are only women who are fruitful and women who are barren, that's the law.
~ Margaret Atwood
Because citizens were always a bit like inmates and inmates were always a bit like citizens, so Consilience and Positron have only made it official.
~ Margaret Atwood
Considering that the whole point of Consilience is for things to run smoothly, with happy citizens, or are they inmates? Both, to be honest. Because citizens were always a bit like inmates and inmates were always a bit like citizens, so Consilience and Positron have only made it official.
~ Margaret Atwood
It causes a jolt of terror to run through him, this absence of official time. Nobody nowhere knows what time it is.
~ Margaret Atwood
En 1903, el respetable funcionario Erskine Childers escribió su única novela, una historia apasionante de espionaje y aventuras, en la que advertía a sus conciudadanos sobre los peligros de una invasión alemana. El enigma de las arenas fue un éxito inmediato, y aún se reedita.
~ Margaret MacMillan
The King was stretched unconscious on the floor, an overturned chair beside him. Horace was shaking his right hand, nursing his obviously bruised knuckles. "Horace Altman," Halt said, "what on earth have you done?" Horace gestured to the wardrobe full of official garments. "I've just elected you King," he said. "Start getting dressed.
~ John Flanagan
Heer Roderick?... Hij zei dat ik je een boodschap moest brengen.' Halt schudde verbijsterd zijn hoofd. 'En die boodschap luidde?' Hij zag dat Arnaut ongemakkelijk in het zadel heen en weer schoof voor hij antwoord gaf. 'Hij zei: Veel geluk dan maar. En hij zei dat ik je moest zeggen dat ik met zijn zegen kwam - onofficieel natuurlijk.
~ John Flanagan
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
And so, forbidden by a Roman official and warned by a slave, I went forth at dusk to meet with a high-class Greek prostitute.
~ John Maddox Roberts
There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected that's when he doesn't forget them.
~ John McCarthy
it would have been a rare thing anyhow for an official to come upon an idea that is not provided for in the regulations.
~ B. Traven
I remember hitting the ball, and I didn't even realise where it went, and then I turned over, and I see the official bending down holding his eye.
~ Denis Shapovalov
I often wonder, when I hear some important speaker rattle off the rote land acknowledgements that have become the standard introduction for official events in this country, whether Indigenous people are getting sick of being constantly and dolefully reminded of who owns their land now.
~ Neil Macdonald
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
~ Harry A. Blackmun