Bureaucracy Quote by Hortense Calisher Download Open image “How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.” — Hortense Calisher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bureaucracy Clerks Love
Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles--which is the way they help me. — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I've had those periods in my career when I was sitting around waiting for a phone call and had an agent who was doing… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
If I don't book a job, I like to see it not as a rejection but as a redirection to something different. — Bella Hadid Copy Share Image
My second clerkship was with Bruce Selya, who is on the First Circuit, and it was a court of appeals clerkship. I learned writing… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
With me, as a town clerk or city manager, there are certain things that I'm supposed to do - if I don't do them,… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“you have to be willing to give your customer-service staff the freedom to work without a script or specific instructions. If you don’t dare… — Lars Kolind Copy Share Image
Let us suppose you become a craneman. Suppose you become a clerk in a lawyer's office. Give the best that is in you. Let… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
Luckily for me, I don't depend on seeing every patient who comes through my door to pay the rent, and so if someone is… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand.… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with the Democratic Party that talks more about - and more loudly about - jobs, and cutting red tape, and bureaucracy,… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
If there's one thing you should know about me it's that I'm utterly unsuited for bureaucracy. I don't know my passwords to anything. I… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way… — Gillian Tett Copy Share Image
“Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Trump conducts meetings and actually tries to get something done rather than just have the meeting and rather than just announce a framework and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the "reasonable person" standard, generally permits adjustment for the circumstances. This type of uniform… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
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