Obsolescent Office Quotes & Sayings

The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by no means novel; it has long been one of the commonplaces of popular opinion. — Thorstein Veblen

If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free. — S. Truett Cathy

Respect is the only perfect bridge between friends. — Pavan Choudary

There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on the face of facts a sinister violence of intention- that indefinable something which forces it upon the mind and the heart of a man, that this complication of accidents or these elemental furies are coming at him with a purpose of malice, with a strength beyond control, with an unbridled cruelty that means to tear out of him his hope and his fear, the pain of his fatigue and his longing for rest: which means to smash, to destroy, to annihilate all he has seen, known, loved, enjoyed, or hated; all that is priceless and necessary- the sunshine, the memories, the future,- which means to sweep the whole precious world utterly away from his sight by the simple and appalling act of taking his life. — Joseph Conrad

I'm not a political guy. — William H. McRaven

Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them. — Buck Brannaman