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Quotes About Ministers

Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
~ Anonymous
We have not fully deciphered his language but I have, as instructed, been keeping full phonetic transcriptions of his every remark. Trubaz has calculated psychologically that the meaning of this remark to be: "Ministers of the Great one, be gracious to me." The phonetic transcription is as follows: AND THEY TALK ABOUT PINK ELEPHANTS!
~ Anthony Boucher
Every MP in the NDA wants to become a minister, which is not possible. So they keep pulling each other down.
~ Mayawati
My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.
~ Fritz Sauckel
Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer are quite right to call for a Brexit that puts jobs first, and to hold ministers to account for their promise to negotiate a trade deal with the E.U. that delivers 'the exact same benefits' as single market membership.
~ Wes Streeting
How's our young guest? he asked. As docile as any child could be, wearing a drug-delivery system as she is, said one of the ministers. She constantly demands to see her mother, said another, and somewhat less constantly demands that we return her homburg to her.
~ Frank Beddor
El gabinete que anunció López Obrador era claramente de derecha. Los ministros que ocuparían las secretarías de Gobernación, Hacienda, Comunicaciones, Economía, Agricultura y Educación no eran ejemplos de radicales izquierdistas. Eran políticos que provenían del antiguo régimen o tecnócratas tradicionales. El jefe de gabinete era un mal empresario, multimillonario de extrema derecha.
~ Roger Bartra
By the late Stalin period, the right of complaint was so thoroughly a part of this political culture, in which civil law and litigation were frequently meaningless, that there were special mailboxes in the concentration camps of the Gulag labeled, To the Supreme Soviet, To the Council of Ministers, To the Minister of Internal Affairs, and To the Prosecutor General.
~ Lynne Viola
For that he was a spirit too delicate To act their earthy and abhorr'd commands, Refusing their grand hests, they did confine him By help of their most potent ministers, And in their most unmitigable rage, Into a cloven pine; within which rift Imprisoned, he didst painfully remain. . . . Shakespeare. The Tempest.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
If conscience is to do its work and the contrite heart is to feel its proper remorse, it is necessary for each individual to confess his sin by name. The confession must be intensely personal. In a meeting of ministers, probably no single sin should be acknowledged with deeper shame than the sin of prayerlessness. Each one of us needs to confess that we are guilty of this.
~ Andrew Murray
All that is great and skilful exists with the minority. There have been ministers who have had both king and people against them, and have carried out their great plans alone. It is not to be imagined that reason can ever be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular; but reason always remains the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is one of the tricks of Satan   to defraud godly ministers of support, that the Church may be deprived   of such ministers.
~ John Calvin
ought we to put confidence in men who conduct themselves with rashness, and, though they assume authority in God's name, yet have no certain and lawful calling? We may learn, then, how neither angels nor men ought to be held in such honor as to induce us to receive whatever they bring forward, unless the Almighty has appointed them to be his ministers and interpreters.
~ John Calvin
I've been all over meeting government ministers and such in Caribbean financial circles. There's a small blockchain movement in the Caribbean. They've been quite a bit more advanced than you might've imagined.
~ Patrick M. Byrne
Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.
~ Jeremy Corbyn
In my brief, home affairs, we have witnessed ministers issue countless dodgy dossiers, fiddle figures and fudge facts.
~ Dominic Grieve
Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.
~ Roy H. Williams
The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.
~ Louis XIV
When Theresa May asked me to resolve policy disagreements between ministers, my power to do that depended on the fact that I was acting on her behalf with her delegated authority.
~ David Lidington
She does not convey the monumentality of the event—the vozhd is dying—but rather she recounts the death as a daughter would. "Who loves this lonely man?" she asks, watching his ministers ricocheting between fear and ambition, Beria scrambling for ascendency. Only his servants. When a comatose Stalin raises his arm in his last moments, she sees this as a gesture of rage against life itself. He had wished to dominate life, but life had finally defeated him.
~ Rosemary Sullivan
it's time to stop reaching out to ministers. They're just not up to the task, and they don't know what they're talking about. I think this guy made that abundantly clear.
~ Rosemary Thornton
Luxury employ'd a million of the poor, and odious pride a million more; Envy itself and vanity were ministers of industry; Their darling folly, fickleness In diet, furniture, and dress, That strange ridic'lous vice, was made The very wheel that turn'd the trade.
~ Arthur Herman
Le ruego que dejemos a Dios y a sus ministros a un lado. —Ah, eso quisiera yo. Porque cambiar el signo de los tiempos no es asunto de Dios, sino de los hombres. De
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
There are sincere and reputable people on both sides. They disagree, but their disagreement has not undone Christianity. And neither side is blowing anyone else up over it. Week in and week out, rabbis, ministers, and priests do not stand before their congregations, preaching about the world to come and exhorting them to seek martyrdom as a fast track to heaven.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali