“On moral grounds, I think that if you believe a certain outcome is a very possible outcome, you have an obligation to tell people that. With global warming, the probability of a bad outcome if we stay on our current emission trends is incredibly high. If you know a bad outcome is likely to happen, what right do you have not to communicate that? You go into a doctor's office, what are they going to do - not tell you the diagnosis?” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsBelieveHappensCertainMoralOfficeDoctorsCurrentsCommunicateObligationOutcomesGlobal WarmingTrendsProbabilityIf You BelieveDiagnosisEmissions Author:Joseph J. Romm
“I get very close to people when I'm shooting them. We would go and shoot a scene with Lucy, and I would spend the whole time telling her about Rob. Then I would go shoot a scene with Rob and tell him all about Lucy. Eventually they wanted to know each other. These are two people who would never have overlapped in any other way or context. We brought to the garden at Rob's office and just sat and watched what unfolded. I remember weeping behind the camera, because I was so moved by the way they connected.” PeopleKnowsWayTwoWholeWantedRememberBehindsSceneOfficeGardenCamerasMovedConnectedShootingSatWeepingLucy Author:Abigail Disney
“Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.” PeopleWholeCultureActorsBlackWhiteMorningOfficeFemaleHollywoodCaughtBoxesActressesChecksBlack PeopleConsumptionCaught UpMondayAccumulationFacetsMonday MorningBox Office Author:Danny Glover
“I decided that I was ready to assume this position when I discovered that the chance to save the country was very meager. I was prepared to sacrifice myself for this country and its 90 million people. They want food, fuel and electricity and yearn for a decent life. Any president who does not pay attention to such details or is unable to provide the minimum level of stability should leave office.” PeopleWantShouldDoeCountryPresidentChanceLevelsPayAttentionMillionsSacrificePositionReadyOfficeDecidedAssumingPreparedDetailsPay AttentionDecentFuelStabilityMinimumElectricityDecent Life Author:Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
“I would never stay in office against the will of the people. My ethics and patriotism do not allow me to do so.” PeopleOfficeEthics Author:Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
“I wasn't even in a newspaper office where I was getting assignments in competition with other people. I remember earlier, though, that I knew a young woman who had been published in the New Yorker, and I was so jealous of her. It wasn't exactly a personal competition. I just envied that accomplishment.” PeopleRememberYoungOfficeCompetitionNewspapersAccomplishmentJealousYoung WomenNew YorkersAssignmentsEnvied Author:Gloria Steinem
“I will not be standing for office. I'm nearing 70; there are younger people within our movement. I just wish to contribute intellectually to the historic process of taking Tunisia from the era of repression to one of democracy.” PeopleWishProcessDemocracyMovementOfficeStandingErasHistoricRepressionTunisia Author:Rashid al-Ghannushi
“I love books, I love art, I'm a fanatic nature and wildlife person. People assume I'm a political animal, power hungry, wanting to run for office. And anyone who knows me knows that none of that's true.” PeopleKnowsPersonsArtBookRunningPoliticalAnimalOfficeAssumingHungryKnow MeFanaticsWildlifePower HungryPolitical Animals Author:David Mixner
“I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state.” PeopleThinkingImportantStatesChurchOfficeSeparationServingChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And State Author:George W. Bush
“... the People of God have to elect public servants who know the difference between serving the public and killing the public, and that those who can't tell the difference don't belong in public office.” PeopleKnowsDifferencesOfficeKillingServantServingPublic OfficePublic Servants Author:Frank Pavone
“For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.” PeopleMenGivingGivenLeaderOfficePropertyRaisedProtectionFavorsChosenTyrantsPublic OfficeCurry Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Especially for people who are unknown, it's easier to get a TV show because you don't have to put a certain amount of people in movie theaters for a box office weekend. It's really difficult to get a great lead role in some big film, if nobody knows you.” PeopleIfsKnowsShowsBigsFilmCertainDifficultRolesTvsAmountEasierOfficeTheaterBoxesWeekendTv ShowsNobody KnowsBox OfficeMovie Theater Author:Eve Hewson
“We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know.” PeopleKnowsWantFeelsI CanHomeKnow HowIssuesTakenOfficeAccounts Author:Charlie Norwood
“Everybody complains about pork, but members of Congress keep spending because voters do not throw them out of office for doing so. The rotten system in Congress will change only when the American people change their beliefs about the proper role of government in our society. Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs. We must reject unlimited government and reassert the constitutional rule of law if we hope to halt the spending orgy.” PeopleIfsBelieveProblemGovernmentLawBeliefSocialRolesEconomicMembersOfficeCreatingProgramCongressProsperitySolveSpendingComplainingCuresOur SocietyRejectsVotersUnlimitedRottenRule Of LawHaltLimited GovernmentPorkEconomic ProblemsRole Of Government Author:Ron Paul
“Officers in the Church of Jesus Christ are called for two distinct purposes: First and foremost, to serve the people; and, secondly, to gain the development and enlarged understanding which always follow earnest service in a responsible position. It is an honorable privilege and a personal benefit to be allowed to serve in an official position in the Church; and an office, whatever it may be, should be accepted in a spirit of grateful appreciation.” PeopleShouldFirstsMayTwoSpiritPurposeJesusUnderstandingChristChurchPositionDevelopmentOfficeBenefitsGainsJesus ChristResponsibleGratefulPrivilegeAppreciationAcceptedOfficialsOfficersHonorableEarnest Author:John Andreas Widtsoe
“I don't know why people don't paint more warthogs. Warthogs are fantastic. They have the most marvelous faces, like cracked mud with tusks. And the eyelashes! Like many otherwise hideous animals, they have truly spectacular eyelashes. But nooo, it's always the charismatic mammals, like foxes and wolves and tigers. Have you ever smelled a fox? Believe me, the warthog produces a light, airy fragrance suitable for the home or office compared to a fox. Um. What was I saying again?” PeopleKnowsBelieveHomeLightFacesAnimalProduceOfficePaintFantasticBelieve In MeMarvelousFoxesTigersMudFragranceSpectacularSuitableHideousCrackedCharismaticMammalsEyelashesAiry Author:Ursula Vernon
“When I place my hand on the Bible and take the oath of office, that oath becomes my highest promise to God. If I am fortunate to become your president, I will serve no one religion, no one group, no one cause, and no one interest. A President must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States.” PeopleIfsStatesHandsCausesPresidentInterestUnitedCommonUnited StatesGroupsPromiseOfficeHighestFortunateOathOath Of Office Author:Mitt Romney
“When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.” PeopleThinkingStatesPartyWonderLordCareersGoneOfficeSorryDonationNot SorryGreat Office Author:William Hague
“I will tell you that we're all human beings, and we all care about what people think of us. But in general, their outlook is, "We're not looking at opening night numbers. We're not looking at opening night box office. We want this to be part of the reason you come to our service."” PeopleThinkingWantHumansReasonCareNightHuman BeingsNumbersOfficeBoxesOpeningOutlookBox OfficeOpening Night Author:Mitchell Hurwitz
“The ethical rule is from Samuel Johnson who believed that maintenance of easily removable ignorance by a responsible office holder was treacherous malfeasance in meeting moral obligation. The prudential rule is that underlying the old Warner & Swasey advertisement for machine tools: "The man who needs a new machine tool, and hasn't bought it, is already paying for it". The Warner & Swasey rule also applies, I believe, to thinking tools. If you don't have the right thinking tools, you, and the people you seek to help, are already suffering from your easily removable ignorance.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenNeedsBelieveHelpingSufferingI BelieveMoralIgnoranceHe ManOfficeToolsMachinesResponsibleMeetingsObligationEthicalJohnsonMaintenanceAdvertisementsTreacherousMoral ObligationMalfeasance Author:Charlie Munger
“I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.” PeopleWorldShouldBookDifferentAsksFoundHalfSituationOfficeSpendingAsk MeMy TimeHikingDifferent WorldsMidwest Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
“Because people were attracted to him because he was not elected to an office. He was not a politician. And like you said before, he was a person that people say "Wow! He has the idea!" But the more and more you listen to Donald Trump, the more you have the sense that he is not the person that's going to run the country. And I have strong views.” PeoplePersonsSaidIdeasCountryRunningStrongViewsLike YouTrumpPoliticianOfficeWow Author:Dalia Mogahed
“To extraordinary powers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgement which are requisite to the successful direction of such an office as that of Chief Magistrate of a free people.” PeopleSuccessfulOfficeLaborExtraordinaryChiefsJudgementTactMagistrates Author:Andrew Jackson
“What in the world had Grover Cleveland done? Will you tell me? You give it up? I have been looking for six weeks for a Democrat who could tell me what Cleveland has done for the good of his country and for the benefit of the people, but I have not found him.... He says himself...that two-thirds of his time has been uselessly spent with Democrats who want office.... Now he has been so occupied in that way that he has not done anything else.” PeopleWorldWayWantGivingHas BeensTwoCountryDoneFoundWeekOfficeSixBenefitsThirdsDemocratClevelandGrover Author:William McKinley
“A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.” PeopleWritingDoorsActivityOfficeCreatingAssumingCodeSoftwareSolitary Author:Bill Gates
“I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingPlayBigsSuccessfulOfficeAll ThingsCatClintonOne WayBeing SuccessfulLionsShockedDens Author:Maya Angelou
“This happened to the people. The Constitution says of the people, by the people, for the people... but the people who got the office, got into office and forgot about the people.” PeopleHappenedOfficeConstitution Author:Bill Cosby
“Muslims are absolutely integrating into the United States. You can go nearly any community and you find people opening up clinics that mostly non-Muslims go in to get services. They are feeding people who are hungry, American citizens, mostly people who are not Muslim. They`re running for office.” PeopleStatesRunningCommunityUnitedUnited StatesCitizensOfficeHungryOpeningFeedingIntegratingAmerican CitizensOpening UpClinicRunning For Office Author:Steve King
“People are going to move in and out of their office, and they're going to move up or get fired. All kinds of things happen like that, in real life. And, we're always going to have crime, unfortunately. If we didn't, then I wouldn't have a new show.” PeopleIfsKindRealShowsHappensMovingCrimeOfficeThings HappenReal LifeAll Kinds Author:Angie Harmon
“Also, my humor is really dry-witted, Canadian humor, so some people get it and some people don't. I'd be great on "The Office." I would like to be on that show. And, I could see me doing romantic comedy films, and stuff like that.” PeopleShowsFilmStuffComedyOfficeDry Author:Tinsel Korey
“I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.” PeopleSometimesHomeWalksWatchesDogTvsOfficeEuropeSpendingParisBitesMy DogSpending Time Author:Marc Jacobs
“As a kid, I used to come to our offices and play under the desks of people I now work with, or who work for me. I would come in and play with fabrics and make little clothes for my Snoopy. People here feel like family. But if I couldn't make a difference, I wouldn't be here. My father wouldn't want me to be here.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsLittlesPlayKidsUsedFatherDifferencesOfficeClothesMaking A DifferenceWant MeFabricDesksLike FamilySnoopy Author:David Lauren
“I like LA. LA is cool, but it ain't like home. Atlanta is home. All my friends are here, I grew up here. But LA is cool. Its more like a big office. Its work and you work, and you're meetin' people all the time, but its more like acquaintances than friends and stuff.I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.” PeopleThinkingHomeBigsWantedStuffCuttingGrewOfficeGrew UpMy FriendsAcquaintanceAtlantaProfanityCuss Words Author:Chris Tucker
“If a legislator is safe from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not have to change his ideas or respond to the needs of the broader population. He can rest content with a mediocre, absentee performance knowing he will be returned to office. And as he is returned year after year the seniority system gives him immense control over people from other parts of the country whose views he need not heed at all.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingYearsDoeIdeasCountryPoliticalBeliefViewsKnowingGroupsEconomicSafeOfficePerformancesCompetitionPopulationImmenseMediocreHeedLegislatorsPolitical BeliefsSeniority Book:Decisions for a Decade: Policies and Programs for the 1970s Source: Decisions for a Decade: Policies and Programs for the 1970s
“I must say that when I first learned of the existence of the Australian Greenhouse Office, I assumed it was responsible for supplying tomatoes to the Parliament House kitchen. But, no, as I soon learnt as industry minister, it was in fact a government funded redoubt of veritable soldiers in a war against carbon dioxide. The zealotry and obsessive passion of these warriors in the battle against the apparent evils of carbon dioxide remains a curiosity to me. After fighting these people for three years as industry minister, I really did wish they would just go away and grow tomatoes.” PeopleYearsFirstsWarFactsGovernmentFightingPassionThreeEvilHouseWishGrowsExistenceIndustryBattleOfficeResponsibleRemainsCuriositySoldierWarriorMinistersKitchenGoing AwayThree YearsCarbonParliamentAustralianObsessiveTomatoesGreenhousesCarbon DioxideZealotry Author:Nick Minchin
“It was a proud moment in giving me the confidence, that I was 'stamped' in the offices as much, you know, as I would get from the streets. To where it's like I'm getting the love from the streets and from the people in the building - and that's kinda dope.” PeopleKnowsGivingMomentsStreetsBuildingProudOfficeDopeProud Moments Author:Kid Ink
“There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually colored windows at the post office in, for example, Pensacola, Florida. And there were white and colored telephone booths in Oklahoma. And there were separate windows where white people and black people would go to get their license plates in Indianola, Mississippi. And there were even separate tellers to make your deposits at the First National Bank in Atlanta.” PeopleKnowsFirstsMayWaitingBlackWhiteRoomsExampleOfficeWindowDoctorsPostsStationsBusBlack PeoplePlatesFloridaTelephonesLicenseMississippiAtlantaDepositsOklahomaPost OfficeWaiting RoomsLicense Plate Author:Isabel Wilkerson
“I worked hard at that through most of the '80s, and in 1990 my house burned in New Hampshire, and my studios and my offices. I had to decide at what level to rebuild, and I decided that I was going to stop trying to be all things to all people, and just go back to playing the guitar.” PeopleTryingHardHouseLevelsOfficeAll ThingsDecidedGuitarStudiosBurned80sStop TryingHampshireNew Hampshire Author:Tom Rush
“People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.” PeopleThinkingJobsCareersFiguresOfficeBoxesDistractedBox Office Author:Andrew Scott
“I'm not much of a correspondent. My letters are not only uninteresting but sparse. I'm glad I don?t have to write for a living. It?s arduous work and the money is very uncertain. On those rare occasions when I wander into a bookstore it amazes me to see the avalanche of literature and semi-literature that is turned out weekly in this country. The people who write these things are either desperate for money or love starved. Why should anyone on a nice balmy day lock oneself in an office and hit a typewriter for hours on end. I think one of the greatest pleasures in the world is not writing.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldWritingEndsCountryLiteratureHoursPleasureNiceOfficeLettersOneselfGladWanderOccasionsDesperateLocksUncertainBookstoresTypewritersGreatest PleasuresAvalanchesRare Occasion Author:Groucho Marx
“According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.” PeopleWellsCertainPresidentOfficeToleranceBarackIngratitude Author:Charlie Pierce
“You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there were qualified therapists in plastic surgeons' offices, and that people would go to a therapeutic meeting before plastic surgery. I think that should be part of the FDA requirement.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldWould BeOfficeTreatsMeetingsIllnessPlasticSurgeryRequirementsQualifiedSurgeonsTherapistsCosmeticsTherapeuticPlastic SurgeryFdaCosmetic SurgeryPlastic Surgeons Author:Sharon Stone
“You are further to declare that we hold sacred the rights of conscience, and may promise to the whole people, solemnly in our name, the free and undisturbed exercise of their religion. And...that all civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.” PeopleMayPersonsWholeChristianNamesRightsExercisePromiseOfficeConscienceSacredCivil RightsDenominationsChristian Denominations Author:Roger Sherman
“I would caution my Republican friends that [Obama has] three years to go, and in that three years the American people are going to want to see some progress and not just claims that this guy is out of office and we're going to do everything to destroy him or that somehow he is a 'socialist' taking over the country. Have we so lost our faith in this country that we think one person, one man can be can suddenly change our entire system? That's kind of absurd.” PeopleThinkingMenWantYearsKindPersonsCountryGuyThreeLostProgressRepublicanOfficeClaimsAbsurdOne ManThree YearsSocialistThis GuyCaution Author:Colin Powell
“Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of matted entanglement have generally been the badges of office of prophets whose injunction to disdain earthly things starts with soap.” PeopleStatesNextHairOfficeProphetSoapGodlinessCleanlinessDisdainBadgesEntanglementEarthly Things Author:Terry Pratchett
“Well, all across the country, this is kind of sad, unemployment offices are swamped with people waiting to file for unemployment insurance. It's gotten so bad that the offices are overwhelmed and can't function. I got an idea. Why don't you hire more people? They're right there in line. Speed this whole thing up!” PeopleWellsKindIdeasCountryWholeWaitingLinesOfficeFunctionSpeedUnemploymentOverwhelmedFiles Author:Jay Leno
“Conservatives came to office to reduce the size of government and enlarge the sphere of free and private initiative. But lately we have increased government in order to stay in office. And, soon, if we don't remember why we were elected we will have lost our office along with our principles, and leave a mountain of debt that our children's grandchildren will suffer from long after we have departed this earth. Because, my friends, hypocrisy is the most obvious of sins, and the people will punish it.” PeopleIfsChildrenLongGovernmentEarthRememberSufferingOrderLostSinPrinciplesMountainOfficeMy FriendsOur ChildrenSizeObviousDebtHypocrisySpheresInitiativeGrandchildrenDepartedSize Of Government Author:John McCain
“I talked with people starting up in the middle of the recession and employees, and supplies and office space were cheap. As far as companies that are already in existence, many became more creative with how they spent their money. A lot of them stopped wasting money that they didn't know they were wasting after they looked hard at their businesses. Some had to change business models because of the economy. Their market didn't exist or wasn't as big anymore.” PeopleKnowsHardBigsSpaceExistenceCompanyEconomyCreativeMiddleOfficeModelsStartingEmployeeSuppliesRecessionsBusiness ModelsStarting UpOffice SpaceWasting Money Author:JJ Ramberg
“The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first Confederate post office, there's a marker for a ball that Robert E. Lee hosted, there's a marker for where Jefferson Davis had a meeting. We love reminding people about all that was going on in the mid-nineteenth century.” PeopleFirstsCenturyOfficeBallsMeetingsSouthPostsLandscapeImageryNineteenth CenturyRemindingSaturatedConfederateMarkersPost OfficeMontgomery Author:Bryan Stevenson
“I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find a way to do this.” PeopleWayStoriesWantedOfficeTiredTelling StoriesTired Of Working Author:Nick Antosca