Gazetted Officer Quotes & Sayings

With much prayer comes great grace from God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand. — Oscar De La Renta

The passion for vengeance is a terrifyingly strong one, very easily and probably inevitably wrought up by such evidence [of atrocities], even at our distance. But however well aware I am of its strength, and that in its full immediate force and expression it is in some respects irrelevant to moral inquiry, I doubt that it is ever to be honored, or regarded as other than evil and in every direction fatally degrading and destructive; even when it is obeyed in hot blood or in a crisis of prevention; far worse when it is obeyed in cold blood and in the illusion of carrying out justice. — James Agee

As the people of the United States enjoy the great merit of having established a system of Government on the basis of human rights, and of giving it a form without example, which, as they believe, unites the greatest national strength with the best security for public order and individual liberty, they owe to themselves, to their posterity and to the world, a preservation of the system in its purity, its symmetry, and its authenticity. — James Madison

Seeing someone have a goal and I if can help them to succeed then it is a big draw for me. — Robin Farina

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad. — Trisha Yearwood

Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as a rule, hate literary conversation, and yet at the right moment, with all its powers of feeling, the mind in silence may feel what it owes to literature. — William Hurrell Mallock

Through faith we are joined to Christ and have union with him. That bond is unbreakable. Our union with Christ is an established fact, guaranteed for all eternity by the indwelling of the Spirit. When we sin, our union with Christ is not in jeopardy. But our communion is. It is possible for believers to have more or less of God's favor. — Kevin DeYoung

Information is valuable. Librarians and libraries are, at best incidental; at worst, in the way. — Donald A. Barclay

I had always served beauty. Davy and I together had loved beauty. Now, maybe, I was worshipping beauty in the Christian God while Davy was worshipping God. There may be danger in the love of beauty, though it seems treason to say it. Perhaps it can be a snare. — Sheldon Vanauken

Before night,' as Nanny used to say of too exuberant children. — Josephine Tey

THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: 'Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police. — George Carlin

France ... What can you say about a country that was too stupid to get on board with our wonderfully-conceived and brilliantly-executed war in Iraq? — Bill Maher

You're not leaving me." Her voice steadied as she took the bag from him and stepped back. "I'm leaving you. — Kitty French

I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist. — Dinesh D'Souza