Nonelective Government Quotes & Sayings

Hire people you get along with, and then let them do what they do best. — Damon Lindelof

Any society that could come here could pick up the lights from New York. What should we do about that? Should we darken New York from now until the last human expires? Would we want to turn off all the radars at JFK airport? — Seth Shostak

George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge — John Le Carre

I don't know if it is love. Why I want to get intimate with you? Why I want to
be committed to you? Why I want to
be attached to you? It feels like
I don't have any control on what's
happening. I don't know if this is
infatuation or love! #LIFE OF LOVE (FILM) — Santonu Kumar Dhar

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. — Randy Pausch

In my experience, endorsements by public officials, they don't count for anything. — John Cornyn

Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement. — Kenneth H. Cooper

The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity'
of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The subject,' says one handbook for amateur photographers, 'must be simple, free of useless accessories; this is called the Search for Unity. — Roland Barthes

You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings. — Paulo Coelho

I am satisfied with the dissatisfaction that never rests until it is satisfied and satisfied again. — Smith Wigglesworth

People say that you want to be varied in your career, and I've done so many things and am very appreciative. But, the one thing I've never done and wanted to do was to be a regular on a TV show, where you get 22 weeks of the year to develop and play a character. I've done arcs of five or eight episodes on shows, but I'd like to have a character that's rich enough and deep enough to want to explore and live with for a few years. Playing the same character, but doing different scenes seems very exciting to me. — Jim Piddock

I don't give a damn about the civilians. — Richard M. Nixon

The more men you see die, the easier it becomes to die yourself; and in my opinion, death may be a torture, but it is not an expiation. — Alexandre Dumas

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. — Roger Avary