Office Christmas Special Part 1 Quotes & Sayings

It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits. — Iain Duncan Smith

The problem with abstractions (like reports and documents) is that they create illusions of agreement. A hundred people can read the same words, but in their heads, they're imagining a hundred different things. — Jason Fried

A world created by observation evokes insight, hence affection, for we see the hunger and fear of all beings. Life becomes a performance on a stage (ranga-bhoomi) aimed to nourish and comfort the other, while deriving nourishment and comfort from their delight. Krishna's performance (leela) leads to him being worshipped as Ranga-natha, lord of the stage. He never judges, so he sees no one as a victim. This is how he begins The Gita: — Devdutt Pattanaik

Hurts come because we live in a world where God has given men free will. But God is love. A loving father gives his children, once they're of age, the ability to make their own choices. Our Heavenly Father does the same, and because of that, chaos sometimes ensues. — Christy Barritt

Plotinus had been born in Alexandria at the beginning of the third century A.D. Like many brilliant critics, he thought he understood what he had read better than the author himself. — Paul Strathern

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole. — Plato

It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time. — Harold Wilson

A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist. — Mary Oliver

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. — George Bernard Shaw

What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance. — Alice Hegan Rice

There was no better way to read a man's character than to watch him play poker. Some played with the aim of holding on to what they had, others played to make a killing. For some it was gambling pure and simple, for others it was a game of skill involving small calculated risks. For some it was about numbers, for others it was about psychology. — Jeannette Walls

I like sarcasm. I like snark. — Alexis Ohanian

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since. — Michael Ironside

When I started doing television, I thought that I would change the way that I shot, the way that I blocked, and the technical side of it. You're not going to change your relationship with the actors or how you approach the characters. That wasn't any different. — Len Wiseman

When your dreams turn into a nightmare, it's time to wake up. — Rachelle Ayala