Birocratic Quotes & Sayings

Humanity hadn't changed, but it had. The venality and the nobility, the cruelty and the grace. They were all still there. It was just the particulars he felt shifting away from under him. — James S.A. Corey

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours. — Clint Eastwood

When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesn't
know which way any of them will go. — Galway Kinnell

Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China. — John Bruton

Since I've become more observant of how bikes and cars interact, I've decided that bicyclists have two major safety threats: cars and themselves. — Lee Nichols

Rather than resist rest and gravitate toward constant motion, let's experiment with letting go. — Gina Greenlee

If you want to be a professional footballer, you have to respect your profession. You have to respect the people that are making you the star you are. You have to protect the passion everyday. — Emmanuel Petit

Memory gallops, then checks up and veers unexpectedly; to memory, the order of occurrence is arbitary — Anthony Doerr

TALENT When I was young I had a great talent For bitching and moaning, Lamenting my errors Lost in self-pity's groaning. And now as the leaves on my branches grow dark The life force within me ignited a spark, Can do it, will do it Talent - that's all there is to it! A poem by Karen Lyons Kalmenson — David Mezzapelle

I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me. — Joss Whedon

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them. — George Orwell

In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality some people have never again been the same. — John E. Hines

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart. — John Wesley

The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence — Friedrich Nietzsche