Officeholder Quotes & Sayings

I don't know of any situation where you're going to have an officeholder in a country of eight million people who's cut off at the knees by the most powerful force in this world and who can still make it fly. — Randall Robinson

Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension — Jacques Lacan

Slavery is the next thing to hell. — Harriet Tubman

Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage. — Robert A. Heinlein

Your heart sees the beauty of life and your soul realizes the ecstasy of love. — Debasish Mridha

I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun. — Mikhail Lermontov

We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by. — Sebastian Horsley

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this. — Mangosuthu Buthelezi

The Golden Proportion, sometimes called the Divine Proportion, has come down to us from the beginning of creation. The harmony of this ancient proportion, built into the very structure of creation, can be unlocked with the 'key' ... 528, opening to us its marvelous beauty. Plato called it the most binding of all mathematical relations, and the key to the physics of the cosmos. — Bonnie Gaunt

Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state. — John F. Kennedy

Pershing won [WWI] without even looking into an airplane, let alone gong up in one. If they had been of such importance he'd have tried at least a ride ... We'll stick to the army on the ground and the battleships at sea. — John W. Weeks

I decided to take a stab at acting. I entered the American Academy of Dramatic Art, where one teacher told me I'd never make it - I was too tall. — Fred Gwynne