Commission Quotes

277 Commission quotes by 236 unique authors

Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books… — Louis MacNeice
Life is like commission, only get what you earn. — James Merrow
They're the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and they will not do that. They will not pull the trigger. — Gray Davis
We have to make it clear that one, two or even three BNP MEPs elected to Brussels will have very little effect on the workings… — Steve Blake
The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment… — Leonard Boswell
So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was… — Joseph Jarman
Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are… — Laura Miller
We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we… — Graeme Murphy
From those few pending questions which the Commission would be called upon to solve at its fourth session, the most important one was the entry… — Alfonso G Robles
The Preparatory Commission held a total of four sessions, the last of which took place just under two years after its creation, from 31 January… — Alfonso G Robles
She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent… — Amy Tan
We're going to break a story that there are people on the staff on the 9-11 Commission that didn't want the 9-11 Commissioners to know… — Curt Weldon
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission — Fred Allen
That paper in my vision so I grind with precision, a hustlers ambition to accumulate commission. — Paul Wall
Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the… — John Calvin
Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidised commission of engineers and physicists could create a… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Testing unnecessary, expensive medicines from the pharmacy so that writes can get a commission! There can be no objection, the doctor is another form of… — Mak_786
The difference between doctorsand butchers: butchers cut their prey in an instant that does not mind, because that is his job! Doctor your victim (patient)… — Mak_786
The Vice President of Planning Commission Montek Singh said in a day are spent on food half a dollar to poor are not a person,… — Mak_786
If a commission by an earthly king is considered an honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice? — David Livingstone
Universalism, fashionable as it is today, is incompatible with the teaching of Christ and His apostles, and is a deadly enemy of evangelism. The true… — John Stott
The way we do it is $2.50 for every cut, we ask for $1 of additional revenue, paid for, as I indicated earlier, by asking… — Barack Obama
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has… — Thomas Paine
Recreation was important because we didn't have any. Here we were a water district and growing by leaps and bounds. It was too large to… — Unknown Author
A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep a man from… — Samuel Butler

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