Official Quotes

431 Official quotes by 384 unique authors

The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the transcending connotation is… — Herbert Marcuse
In China, remember, the the banks are arms of state policy. They loan because the local party official or regional party official tells them we… — James Chanos
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media… — Ma Jian
One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own. — Josh Mandel
There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the… — Mark Twain
The keeper of the keys was one of the most important roles a household servant could hold (Mark 13:32-34). A higher official held the keys… — Craig S. Keener
Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness, — Mia Couto
I would like to assure you that there is no organization or any sort of repression against people who don’t agree with our actions, for… — Vladimir Putin
There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses. — Jonas Mekas
I just wanted to make it clear that I was saying that the possibility is there and I would've been fine with it, the network… — Robert Kirkman
Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on official… — Jack Kerouac
Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original picture of them… — Peter York
The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee,… — Ben Macintyre
Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours,… — Mark Hertsgaard
I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I… — Richard M. Nixon
It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity. — Gustave Courbet
I do not think it would be appropriate to use official party resources such as the DNC website on behalf of organizations whose purpose is… — Terry McAuliffe
I'm comfortable with that [a week's practice]. I've had numerous weeks of working on it, and a lot of it has been football specific. One… — Anquan Boldin
This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and… — Lyndon B. Johnson
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of… — Robert Moses
You are human, whether your ancestors come from Europe, Asia, Africa, or wherever, shamanism once existed there. We are just attempting to go home to… — Michael Harner
Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit… — Ottmar Edenhofer
I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term,… — Glenn Turner
Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what to do. It… — Robin Meyers
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events. — Honore de Balzac

Who Wrote These Official Quotes

384 authors contributed a total of 431 Official Quotes, led by these top contributors: