#office

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#around #band #become #believe #broken

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#i #independent #night #office #realized

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#appointment #discuss #drawn #duties #exercising

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#character #discussion #every #fairly #fitness

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#against #because #blowing #bombing #globalisation

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like. ↗

— David Baldacci

#been #cool #down #i #joined

We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone. ↗

— John Abizaid

#empower #everything #forces #include #iraqi

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ↗

— Aesop

#appoint #great #great ones #hang #office

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#easy #elected #find #get #me

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office. ↗

— Tom Allen

#bush #companies #energy #energy companies #gift