Quotes About Committee

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

passed the letter to Menzhinsky with his own commentary: We have to take account of such moods in the Central Committee's ruling circles, and pause for thought. It would be a very great political mistake if in principle the party on the question of the GPU were to surrender to the philistines and give

This was the problem with making important decisions by committee and trying to run a war of ideals with men and women whose vision was so limited by money.

And their representatives at Philadelphia, who first declared Independence, were, in the eye of the constitutional law of that day, simply a committee of Revolutionists, and in no sense constitutional authorities, or the representatives of constitutional authorities.

Word is that you're not all that popular on the committee. The word 'asshole' gets attached to you a lot." "I'm just being me.

He said he wants your wisdom about certain members of the executive committee. He's apparently finding a few of them difficult to reach a rapport with." "It's because he's an asshole." "That would have been my guess, too.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Today while the titular head of the family may still be the father everyone knows that he is little more than chairman at most of the entertainment committee.

My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their defense of freedom and justice.

The Democratic National Committee is virtually 100 percent anti-firearms ownership, and the Republican National Committee stands on the side of the freedom.

A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. "What shall we name the other one?" I smiled. She was not amused.

You're asking the cyborg fugitive and the wild animal to be the welcoming committee? That's adorable.

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

Everett's stature as an orator and statesman, and in particular his association with commemorations at vital American historical sites, meant he was the unanimous choice of all seventeen Union state governors whom the organizing committee consulted.

If Jenna could get on the committee, she could make sure that it was the best social/dance/whatever in the history of Lakeview. And she could help them avoid the classic mistakes. Like Kenny G.! "This is so cool!" Grace said

None of the young people knows how to be part of a committee," Charlotte said. "They're basically unchurched.

Both ministers said their theology was "love." "Love is the doctrine of our church," said Liz. "Love is the thread of the interconnected web," said Phoebe. Both ministers said they attended all committee meetings and most social justice activities. No wonder these women's sermons were so flat: when did they have the time to read and study, think deeply, and hammer out sentences?

When the search committee named the Reverend Dr. Tom Fox as their candidate, and when the congregation heard him preach and unanimously voted him in—well, almost unanimously, as the usual half-dozen soreheads cast dissenting votes—spirits soared and there was much rejoicing, no small part of which was the enormous pleasure and relief of seeing the interim depart.

Yes, this is a memoir of a real experience. It is not fiction. I was on a search committee for a senior minister and this is my story of that search. Others might tell it differently.

took to heart Jack's concerns about my being on the search committee. Would I be serving the church or my own ends? (Both, I decided. Two to four hundred hours of work was not a negligible contribution, and if I got material for a book as well, who could say I hadn't earned it?)

Three months! I'm not sure he's even a member. What was Arne thinking? A search committee is no place for a rank newcomer." Nor, probably—guilt pang—a drifting old-timer.

I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.

A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours.

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.