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Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition. -- Tom Wicker
We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. -- Thomas Jefferson
Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now. -- Rick Perry
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. -- A. C. Benson
Facebook, Twitter and Google have all opened offices in Brazil, recognizing the importance of localizing their products and customer service efforts. -- Ryan Holmes
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency. -- Edward Snowden
We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated. -- Henry Bessemer
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers. -- Tom Peters
London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city. -- David Bailey
One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries. -- Hillary Clinton
First, this isn't about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library. -- Jay Chiat
The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time. -- Bobby Seale
If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive. -- J. G. Ballard
The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves. -- James K. Polk
Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else. -- Bobby Jindal
Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth. -- Freeman Dyson
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These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border. -- Paul Cellucci
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. -- Walter Lippmann
We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom. -- John Piper
Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside. -- Tom Hodgkinson
You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there were qualified therapists in plastic surgeons' offices, and that people would go to a therapeutic meeting before plastic surgery. I think that should be part of the FDA requirement. -- Sharon Stone
I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels. -- William Hague
After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors. -- Ma Jian
WHO has a country office in nearly every developing country, usually located close to the Ministry of Health. Staff in these offices need to do much more to help ministries of health strengthen their national health plans and strategies and then negotiate with development partners to support these priorities and follow these plans. -- Margaret Chan
There is usually an 'X factor' that is hard to define. For HTC, I think it is our culture. We embrace the best of our Eastern roots and combine it with the best of the Western cultures where we have leadership and offices. It makes the culture colorful as well as energetic and creative. -- Cher Wang
Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many. -- James Chanos
Great offices will have great talents. -- William Cowper
Allow the Taliban to open offices in Pakistan -- Imran Khan
Public offices were not made for private convenience. -- Thomas Jefferson
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. -- Samuel Johnson
One day offices will be a thing of the past -- Richard Branson
More diets start in dress shops than in doctors' offices. -- Evan Esar
The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish. -- Ray Kurzweil
Every one of our congressional offices, every day, is under attack. -- Darrell Issa
Since when has corruption everywhere, homes, streets, offices, become a Nigerian factor -- Sunday Adelaja
Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it. -- George Washington
What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices? -- Robert Hayden
People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices. -- Andrew Davies
Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland. -- Sean Connery
There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now. -- Method Man
What were the bodies like on the beach? Ugly and white and ruined by offices. -- Leonard Cohen
The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates. -- Thomas Jefferson
Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill -- John Donne
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. -- Alberto Manguel
The reality is institutions that invest in high growth have offices globally and talk across offices. -- Danny Rimer
I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Chinais a world class if not the world class property bubble, primarily high-rise buildings, offices and condos. -- James Chanos
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles. -- Jill Lepore
Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man. -- Isaac Newton
Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices. -- Albert Pike
If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses -- Joseph Goebbels
I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles. -- Michael Douglas
Our offices must always be headed by the kind of men who command respect. Not phonies, zeros or bastards. -- David Ogilvy
Unfortunately, teatime in London is when people in Los Angeles arrive in their offices and pick up the phone. -- Beeban Kidron
It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue. -- Fred Allen
We don't need gold plated highways. We don't need zoning commissions which penalize offices at home and promote car commutes. -- James Howard Kunstler
The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate. -- Samuel Johnson
Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees? -- Michel de Montaigne
We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press. -- Helen Thomas
In 30 years time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed. -- Richard Branson
I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work. -- Kamala Harris
In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy. -- John Prescott
When I was 24, I co-founded a company called Athenahealth which built the first Web-based software and back-office service suite for doctors' offices. -- Todd Park
By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men. -- Thomas More
At Sequoia, we have opened offices in China and India, and we have made a handful of investments in Latin America/Brazil. -- Roelof Botha
At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers. -- James Wolcott
I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse. -- Thomas Jefferson
For 'Breaking Bad,' our offices were in the ugliest building in Burbank, California. Which, if you know Burbank, is really saying something. -- Peter Gould
Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship. -- Lewis Mumford
While Hillary Clinton meets only with donors and lobbyists, my plan was crafted with the input from Federal Immigration offices, very great people. -- Donald Trump
Important state legislative races and statewide elections for offices like Lt. Governor and Attorneys General are often overshadowed by gubernatorial and federal elections. -- Ronnie Musgrove
Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another. -- Martin Luther
We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices. -- Akio Morita
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. -- Thomas Jefferson
Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished. -- Richard Price
I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that. -- Imtiaz Ali
Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They're associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure. -- Susan Cain
You cannot foster a collaborative environment when people's offices are completely locked, where you cannot even see the assistant because the offices are so big. -- Marcelo Claure
A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war. -- John Milton
What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing. -- Joel Siegel
There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God. -- Horace Bushnell
Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden. -- John Milton
I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices yet in New Delhi or Jaipur. -- Ines de La Fressange
It's a tough problem that a company faces once they branch out beyond one set of offices in California into that big bad world out there. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the Creator. -- Joseph P. Bradley
Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will do. -- Will Rogers
If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have. -- Amber Tamblyn
If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have -- Amber Tamblyn
The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife. -- Thomas Jefferson
I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments. -- Richard Cobden
The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance. -- Jeremy Collier
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity. -- Joseph Addison
King has big offices, houses, and he pays his fighters a lot of money. An, because he's black, the FBI figures he must be doing something crooked. -- Mike Tyson
We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished. -- Emperor Norton
We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished. -- Emperor Norton
In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. -- Andrew Jackson
At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that. -- Kenneth Branagh
It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not. -- Betty Friedan
Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy. -- Jim C. Hines
Factions among yourselves; preferring such To offices and honors, as ne'er read The elements of saving policy; But deeply skilled in all the principles That usher to destruction. -- Philip Massinger
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government]. -- James Madison
This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme -- Charles Spurgeon
Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage. -- Thomas Jefferson
If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly. -- Bob Filner
You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned. -- St. Catherine of Siena
What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit. -- Andre Maurois
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices. -- Richard Cobden
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices. -- Richard Cobden
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs. And maybe a field, if I'm lucky. -- Russell T Davies
Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love! -- William Wordsworth
In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters. -- George Washington
The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard. -- Robert Scheer
What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas. -- Robert Mueller
All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other distinction than that of their virtues and talents. -- Olympe de Gouges

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