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What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. — Richard Harkness Copy Share Image
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done. — Green Monk Copy Share Image
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and… — Ferdinand Porsche Copy Share Image
Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises… — Stan Kelly-Bootle Copy Share Image
What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
“My love, I see you through my tears. No pity in your face I see. I have sailed far across the years; Stretch out,… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria in the… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
“That sea - that mother of a million summers, Who bore, with melody, a million springs, Shall sing for my enchantment...” — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
“My soundless feet shall fly among the runners Through the red thunders of a Zeppelin raid, My still voice cheer the Anti-Aircraft gunners, The… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start.… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other. — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
“I want to go out into the country, I want to thread the pale Spring air, and hear the lambs cry. I want to… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
“Come home, come home, you million ghosts, The honest years shall make amends, The sun and moon shall be your hosts, The everlasting hills… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
“The reason you have committees is that you have divided responsibilities,” Jobs said. “We don’t. At Apple you can figure out exactly who is… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to… — Rick Larsen Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush. — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies… — Patrick Caddell Copy Share Image
I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
