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  • The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life -- Willard Gaylin
  • Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work. -- Jilly Cooper
  • I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready. -- Joseph Kanon
  • Year-end financial statements ... express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes. -- Alain de Botton
  • I never worked in an office in my life. -- Jack Vance
  • There has to be life after the Charlotte Mayor's office. -- Harvey Gantt
  • I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office. -- Roz Savage
  • It was a confusing time in my life, a really bad day at the office. -- Boris Becker
  • Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life. -- Jason Calacanis
  • No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. -- Thomas Dewey
  • I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
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  • Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf? -- Sebastian Junger
  • I hold an office in trust, not a title. I don't want to say it's a kamikaze approach to life, but it's ingrained. -- Bob Latta
  • As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it. -- Martin Van Buren
  • What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people? -- Richard J. Daley
  • I have people coming to me every day, coming to my office, with life-threatening diseases - life-threatening diseases - and they were dropped from their health care because of the Affordable Care Act. -- Michael Grimm
  • After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office. -- Roy Barnes
  • My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job. -- Wallace Shawn
  • I chose to take the oath of office with my personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita because its teachings have inspired me to be a servant-leader, dedicating my life in the service of others and to my country. -- Tulsi Gabbard
  • My cartoon life is in my office, and it's very separate and getting very in my own head. My television life is I'm begging one of the actors to say the line in the way I'd like them to. -- Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • In life, we do not give employees enough leeway. If you look around Semco's office, there are plenty of empty desks. The question is - where are these people? I do not have the slightest idea, but I am not interested. -- Ricardo Semler
  • Office life is very, very strange. It's like no other way of living. You have an intimacy with people who you work with in the office, yet if you meet them on the streets, you both look the other way because you're embarrassed. -- John Banville
  • There has to be life after the Charlotte Mayors office. -- Harvey Gantt
  • You wouldn't want somebody in office who hasn't experienced life. -- Rob Lowe
  • We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
  • No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. -- Thomas Dewey
  • The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life. -- Richard Aldington
  • I have never had an office that I work out of and work has become intertwined with my personal life. -- Richard Branson
  • Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous. -- Ricky Gervais
  • A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear. -- William Hazlitt
  • Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • An office is a place to... live life to the fullest. To the max. To... an office is a place where dreams come true. -- Michael Scott
  • That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body. -- Aristotle
  • Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing. -- Gloria Gaynor
  • I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics. -- David Remnick
  • My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction. -- Oliver Cromwell
  • Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery. -- Dorothy Parker
  • I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office. -- Henry Rollins
  • I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life. -- Frank Auerbach
  • Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world. -- Willa Cather
  • I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall. -- Isaac Deutscher
  • Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken. -- Jay Asher
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