A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
It's what I say all the time to my girls in the office here: The more they dress for sex, the less… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
China is both an adversary, but also a potential partner in the international community if it's following the rules. So my attitude… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No man on his death bed ever looked up into the eyes of his family and friends and said, I wish I'd… — Arie De Geus Copy Share Image
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You're miscarrying a baby first thing in the morning. Who wants to hear it? God bless them. It's a very strange life.… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
What's it like, Lexy? You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation. The victor in battle would directly see the blood… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan came to office and had already been an experienced politician as governor of California, whose ideology and ideas, no matter… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
We not only brought peace to many countries and people around the world, but we never dropped a bomb, we never launched… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
In such a government as ours no man is appointed to an office because he is the fittest for it--nor hardly in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out — whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector,… — Anthony Romero Copy Share Image
In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films. — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
I was young, so I was part of youth culture. The years went by, I became older and no longer part of… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
“In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I'd just love to sit at home, wake up at 10AM, go to my own office with my dog, and write a… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
Attorney General John Ashcroft bid farewell to the Justice Department with a goodbye address. The voluntary resignation came as a bit of… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Todd Palin's frequent presence in the governor's office led some in Juneau to call him the 'Shadow Governor.' But it had never… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men… — Maureen Reagan Copy Share Image
With "The Office," they said, "We don't want anyone we recognize, so give us unknown actors," and I think that was the… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs.… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational… — Stephen Cambone Copy Share Image
To be honest, if people thought my performance in 'The Office' was the same as my performance in 'The Hobbit,' it would… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
They did not believe in making any contracts. They believed that as long as you were organized, you could hold the office… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My school is the world, and my teacher is the people. It is very important not to stay cloistered in the office… — Alberta Ferretti Copy Share Image