Committees Quotes

340 Committees quotes by 298 unique authors

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. — Elbert Hubbard
With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak out against Mr.… — Harvey Fierstein
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its… — Samuel Johnson
Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can… — Gary Hamel
I say to my colleagues that I sit alongside them in committee, in the bars and in the tea room, and I queue alongside them… — Unknown Author
At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously quoted the Burns… — Unknown Author
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand… — Toni Morrison
Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny… — D. James Kennedy
When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it. — Fred Hollows
Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of… — Ashley Montagu
Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want… — Robin Williams
We are delighted to work with the Republican National Committee to build a conservative Congressional majority in 2014. They have a keen understanding for the… — Unknown Author
Emboldened by the progress the Republican National Committee has made to ensure we are effectively engaging the Hispanic community year-round. It's important our party listens… — Marco Rubio
What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or… — John Green
With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back… — Donald Trump
Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it… — Doris Lessing
You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be… — Rupert Murdoch
I don't believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee... I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take.… — Steve Wozniak
I have found there are real objects under in intelligent control being seen on the ground and in our skies worldwire. The unknowns have varied… — George Fawcett
A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and… — Allan Sherman
The Air Force had put out a secret order for its pilots to capture UFOs. For the last six months we have been working with… — Donald Keyhoe
Congressional investigations...are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there is quite a bit of… — Unknown Author
If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe. — Walter Lippmann
In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes… — Leon Trotsky

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