#office

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back. ↗

— Charles Hamilton Houston

#convinced #could #dying #fellow #fellow americans

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line. ↗

— Charles Edward Montague

#duties #front #his #inverse #line

I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#arnold #holding #i #i think #more

Choose your company the way you choose your life partner; after all, you spend more time in the company than with your life partner ↗

— Ravi Kapilavai

#life

..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've built my life around you." I think a good test to see if a human is actually a robot/android/cylon is to have them listen to this song lyric and study their reaction. If they don't cry, you should stab them through the heart. You will find a fusebox. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#fleetwood-mac #humor #landslide #mindy-kaling #music

If your not living on the edge, your taking up way too much space! ↗

— Devin C. Hughes

#devin-c-hughes #inspirational

This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information. ↗

— John Scarlett

#information #iraqi #know #line #military

For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#basement #books #floor #graduated #i

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#brow #brown #clean #committee #conventions

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#always #blood #color #did #doctor