Quotes About Official

I am thrilled and very grateful that 'Gully Boy' has been picked as India's official entry for the Oscars.

Barr has thrown himself in with Trump in ways unbecoming to the nation's highest legal official. His conduct in trying to clear Trump is of a piece with his baseless attacks on 'spying' by the FBI and his defiance of Congress's subpoenas.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

If a football official were to call for a slow-motion replay every time Didier Drogba fell over, each match would last about six weeks.

in my opinion those who strive for fame will lose their lives on account of fame; those who live in quest of fortune will perish because of riches; those who have titles sleep embracing a tiger; and those who receive official favors walk with snakes in their sleeves.

I cannot believe we want our great nation to become a land where our personal privacy and our personal freedom are jeopardized by the abuse of power by a police official who seems to believe he is a law unto himself ~ George McGovern

On May 8 Edgar went to the White House to discuss the problem with the President and senior members of the cabinet. The outcome was that for the first time, Edgar gained official sanction to conduct political intelligence.

what I know is unofficial, what [the inspector] knows is official. I have the right to private judgment, but he has none.

Nothing, Ismet thought, makes a more fanatical official than a Latin. Organization is alien to their natures, but once they get a taste for it they take to it like drink. They claim to be impulsive, but they're the most bureaucratic of all, whatever they say.

there was also a celebrated official sculptor whose works disfigured the whole of Paris

Love in the modern sense does not exist in antiquity except outside of official society," notes Engels: at the very point where antiquity broke off its penchant for sexual love, the Middle Ages took it up again with adultery. And this is the form that love will take as long as the institution of marriage lasts.

Yeah. A real date. Something official. You. Me. Tonight. We're long overdue.

all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

We live together, you and I, in a dark time when all official history is propaganda.

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality.

As soon as we take the true view of Parliamentary office we shall perceive that, fairly, frequent change in the official is an advantage, not a mistake. If his function is to bring a representative of outside sense and outside animation in contact with the inside world, he ought often to be changed.

Il y a deux Histoires : l'Histoire officielle, menteuse qu'on enseigne, l'Histoire ad usum delphini puis l'Histoire secrète, où sont les véritables causes des événements, une histoire honteuse

Once avant-garde artists receive official recognition, they start a double life. In one, they inspire younger artists to do more. In the other, they inspire a mass of imitators who make the work respectable and exclusionary. The artists and their art become intellectual brand names.

I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state.

David Dinkins was a financial disaster personally - and as an administrator. That is what the record shows.

I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session.

Governments started negotiating towards emission reduction in 1990. That's when the official negotiations started.

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.