#commission

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#books #commissioned #kind #life #margaret

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world. ↗

— James Buchan

#come #commissioned #conqueror #dispassionate #english

I do a show. It comes on late at night on TV. And if that means I'm a late-night talk show host, then I guess I am, but in every other regard I resign my commission, I don't care for it. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#care #comes #commission #every #guess

I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#america #been #canadian #co-operation #commission

Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they've elected to determine their local policing. ↗

— Theresa May

#crime #determine #elected #local #obviously

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#balanced #bipartisan #commission #controls #debt

In these times, when so wide a gulf has opened between the rich and the poor, which, instead of narrowing, as all good men would have it, grows broader daily; it is most important that all ranks and degrees of people should understand whose hands are stretched out to separate these two great divisions of society each of whom, for its strength and happiness, and the future existence of this country, as a great and powerful nation, is dependent on the other. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#gini-coefficient #londonderry #men

The opportunities for using our financial resources to spread the gospel and strengthen the church all over the world are greater than they've ever been. As God raised up Esther for just such a time as hers, I'm convinced he's raise us up, with all our wealth, to help fulfill the great commission. The question is, what are we doing with that money? Our job is to make sure it gets to his intended recipients. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#missions #opportunity #stewardship #wealth #money

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. ↗

— Fred Allen

#advertising #advertising agency #agency #commission #confusion

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#art #artist #believes #comes #commissioned