Detest Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne Download Open image “I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Detest Office Political Politics Tenure
I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs. — Isabel dos Santos Copy Share Image
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Political positions do not belong to the officeholder; they belong to the people that place us in office. — Aja Brown Copy Share Image
I would never run for any office or government position. I'm not into it. — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Everyone acknowledges that there is a political part to tenure, but no one likes to admit it. — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've never sought elected office since I was a senior class president in high school. — Jeffrey Chiesa Copy Share Image
There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“there was something of the women molded into the great, stalwart frame of Hollingsworth; nor was he ashamed of it; as men often are… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire, I longed to kindle one!” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster, which, after all,—though we can point to every feature of his… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God wanted Israel, as He wants Christians, to learn to utterly abhor and detest anything that had the potential of coming between them and… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything… — Pamela Hansford Johnson Copy Share Image
In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
