Firing Quotes

119 quotes by 116 authors

Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something… — Ron Livingston
Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is… — Annie Dillard
Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces… — Ayn Rand
I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is… — Max Beckmann
The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their… — Guy Endore
The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as much more than… — Jonathan Messinger
The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off… — Elspeth Huxley
Empathy isnâ€™t just something that happens to us â€” a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain â€” itâ€™s also a choice we make:… — Leslie Jamison
He was fortunate to fight me on a bad night because if he fights me when I'm firing on all cylinders, he's getting battered as… — Carl Froch
Creativity is the firing of my soul. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Firing is always difficult. The right way: one-on-one. The wrong way: snickering in front of other people, or via email. — David Moore
In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. — Joseph Conrad
I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery, and I remember taking the bow… — John Barrowman
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing… — William Duncan Silkworth
There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns. — Andy Richter
The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My heart is beating… — Kaui Hart Hemmings
I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most… — Toby Young
Even illegal weapons have lost their panache. Zip guns and shanks were at least homemade. Where is the craft in a grade-schooler firing a magnum?… — John Waters
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture… — George Orwell
You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders. — Gary Cole

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