Quotes about Official

Official truths are often powerful illusions. Votes: 3

Official truth is not actual truth. Votes: 3

Official history is believing the murderers at their word. Votes: 3

Official aid is more likely to retard development than to promote it Votes: 3

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word. Votes: 3

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. Votes: 3

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war. Votes: 3

The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense. Votes: 3

We can reveal that John's 85 That's a well known fact Telling Kathy's age would be a breach Of the Official Secrets Act Votes: 3

...this initiation ceremony, known as 'signing the Official Secrets Act', has no legal force; everyone is bound by the Act whether they sign the form or not. Votes: 3

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. Votes: 3

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code. Votes: 3

I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity. Votes: 3

I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity. Votes: 3

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets. Votes: 3

Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals. Votes: 3

Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong. Votes: 3

Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it. Votes: 3

Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you. Votes: 3

The deadliest blow the enemy of the human soul can strike is to do fury honor. . . . Official acceptance is the one unmistakable symptom that salvation is beaten again, and is the one surest sign of fatal misunderstanding, and is the kiss of Judas. Votes: 3

Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly. Votes: 3

Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original picture of them in 'The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook,' published in 1982, was of an upper-middle-class world, conservative and fairly homogeneous, united by old attitudes and institutions. Votes: 3

It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know). Votes: 3

Mentor's Official and Complete Procedural Handbook on Initial Succubus Intake and Probationary Period (Abridged). "Abridged?" I spun toward Jerome. "Tell me you're getting back at me for the time I accused you of wearing Old Spice." "That one's still coming," said the demon. "This one's for real. Votes: 3

There's something about having a badge that just makes you feel so official. Votes: 1

As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say. Votes: 1

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world. Votes: 1

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America. Votes: 1

In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit. Votes: 1

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions. Votes: 1

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. Votes: 1

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line. Votes: 1

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. Votes: 1

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be. Votes: 1

I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body. Votes: 1

In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history. Votes: 1

As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function. Votes: 1

I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but being an official Los Angelite, this town has influenced most of my daily style, which is relaxed & easy. Votes: 1

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good. Votes: 1

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it. Votes: 1

In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules. Votes: 1

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. Votes: 1

I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region. Votes: 1

I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things. Votes: 1

We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.' Votes: 1

Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least. Votes: 1

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech. Votes: 1

I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children. Votes: 1

Who grins in official circumstances? Votes: 0

I'm only a poor corrupt official. Votes: 0

Coffee is the official beverage of culture. Votes: 0

The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always. Votes: 0

The truth was stranger than the official fiction. Votes: 0

For official purposes, these children do not exist. Votes: 0

I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy. Votes: 0

Congratulations. Your official super-nerd badge is in the mail. Votes: 0

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial. Votes: 0

It's official: cyber terror is the new yellowcake uranium. Votes: 0

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud. Votes: 0

I'm so official, all I need is a whistle. Votes: 0

Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target. Votes: 0

Meanwhile, the Bush dynasty comes to an official end. Votes: 0

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. Votes: 0

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31. Votes: 0

Greetings, cybernuts! This is I.B. Nosey, your official unofficial reporter! Votes: 0

I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious. Votes: 0

Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness, Votes: 0

all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue. Votes: 0

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless. Votes: 0

It's official. Highway patrolmen are not susceptible to the Jedi Mind Trick. Votes: 0

Yeah. A real date. Something official. You. Me. Tonight. We're long overdue. Votes: 0

Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes. Votes: 0

i want to make it official, i want to make it forever Votes: 0

It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official. Votes: 0

The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department. Votes: 0

The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. Votes: 0

My official cruise ship band name is now A Band On Ship... Votes: 0

I have the biggest hair in the world - and that's official! Votes: 0

I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party. Votes: 0

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds. Votes: 0

American official policy is that Egypt is an ally of the United States. Votes: 0

The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged. Votes: 0

You don't have to be an elected official to be a public servant. Votes: 0

A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official. Votes: 0

When a government official says a problem has been "contained," pay no attention. Votes: 0

Jacksonville's official bird is the butterfly. The butterfly is also Jacksonville's official flower. Votes: 0

State Department official accused of offering 'quid pro quo' in [Hillary] Clinton email scandal. Votes: 0

Canada's official languages program is arguably the most successful affirmative action program in history Votes: 0

A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse. Votes: 0

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet. Votes: 0

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art. Votes: 0

The official bio is the wrongest thing you've ever seen in your entire life. Votes: 0

I'm not a public official. I'm a businessman, I'm a builder, I'm a planner. Votes: 0

If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato. Votes: 0

I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state. Votes: 0

A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit. Votes: 0

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version. Votes: 0

After a while, you get tired of being the official Scot and defending everything Scottish. Votes: 0

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list. Votes: 0

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass. Votes: 0

My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans. Votes: 0

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen. Votes: 0

I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months. Votes: 0

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent. Votes: 0

In all countries, most of the time, official spokesman and official liar are the same thing! Votes: 0

The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state. Votes: 0

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. Votes: 0

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind. Votes: 0

I have a private Instagram and an official one, so I'm not opposed to social media. Votes: 0

If your life is bad because of an elected official, then you don't have a life. Votes: 0

McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer. Votes: 0

Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters. Votes: 0

Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization. Votes: 0

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives. Votes: 0

I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity. Votes: 0

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him. Votes: 0

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights. Votes: 0

And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade. Votes: 0

there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be. Votes: 0

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity. Votes: 0

Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical. Votes: 0

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party. Votes: 0

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality. Votes: 0

A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy. Votes: 0

It is impossible to find a single example of a monopoly that has ever existed without official protection. Votes: 0

Christianity is permitted under China's constitution, and the government has long supported a network of official Christian churches. Votes: 0

Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths. Votes: 0

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. Votes: 0

Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia. Votes: 0

This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade. Votes: 0

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war. Votes: 0

Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that Votes: 0

I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state. Votes: 0

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own. Votes: 0

The 9/11 Commission Report is fatally flawed. The major conclusions of The 9/11 Commission Report, the official, conspiracy theory, are false. Votes: 0

Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is. Votes: 0

An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports. Votes: 0

I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar. Votes: 0

From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties. Votes: 0

Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan. Votes: 0

When you hit 'Save' on a spread sheet and you assign a spreadsheet to something, that [stuff] becomes official. Votes: 0

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events. Votes: 0

It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said. Votes: 0

While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonable show a much more subdued picture. Votes: 0

Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end Votes: 0

If one official signals Falcons ball and Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson signals Seahawks ball, is it a jump ball? Votes: 0

Of course, no government official will ever tell you that the cities may be making the people in them ill. Votes: 0

The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance. Votes: 0

Now that Hillary Clinton is officially running for President I am officially not going to vote for her. It's official. Votes: 0

I'm a partisan, too. I'm in favor of AUTHENTICITY." US State Department veteran and U.N. refugee official Wendy Chamberlain Votes: 0

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.' Votes: 0

I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music. Votes: 0

I got to stick with what I know [about The Clinton Foundation]. I'm not an official of the State Department. Votes: 0

Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form. Votes: 0

In my official status, I cannot comment on ET contact. However, personally, I can assure you, we are not alone! Votes: 0

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it. Votes: 0

My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe. Votes: 0

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing. Votes: 0

The way I approach stardom and the show, I'm like a politician. I'm an elected late-night official to do your work. Votes: 0

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all. Votes: 0

What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN. Votes: 0

It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good. Votes: 0

There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses. Votes: 0

...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises. Votes: 0

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language. Votes: 0

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. Votes: 0

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual. Votes: 0

It was official. I now wanted to murder a ghost, a notion I'd discarded as unlikely only twenty minutes before. (Cat) Votes: 0

I was an assistant U.S. attorney. I was the associate attorney general of the United States, third-ranking official under Ronald Reagan. Votes: 0

The first official statements of President Asif Ali Zardari's new government have been firm and robust. Pakistan is obviously a renewed democracy. Votes: 0

I just got my work visa to shoot 'American Horror Story,' and my official status is 'alien with extraordinary abilities.' Votes: 0

I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot. Votes: 0

When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention. Votes: 0

We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests. Votes: 0

During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events. Votes: 0

I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot. Votes: 0

Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD. Votes: 0

administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts! Votes: 0

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit. Votes: 0

I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session. Votes: 0

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting. Votes: 0

We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try. Votes: 0

We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust. Votes: 0

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong. Votes: 0

When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response. Votes: 0

Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say. Votes: 0

The Church's teaching isn't an official statement, but the cumulative understanding of all the people who have loved and experienced Jesus through time. Votes: 0

My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework. Votes: 0

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year. Votes: 0

Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie. Votes: 0

Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.) Votes: 0

She call me the referee cause I be so official. My shirt aint got no stripes but I can make that pussy whistle. Votes: 0

My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman. Votes: 0

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence. Votes: 0

Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties. Votes: 0

Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong personal beliefs. Votes: 0

Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official. Votes: 0

I`ll make it official. I care about Don Draper and what happens to him and I`m not the only one who does. Votes: 0

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over. Votes: 0

If a football official were to call for a slow-motion replay every time Didier Drogba fell over, each match would last about six weeks. Votes: 0

The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success. Votes: 0

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough. Votes: 0

The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different. Votes: 0

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. Votes: 0

Don Siegelman should be a star in the Democratic Party. Instead, he's a former elected official sentenced to prison by a right-wing judge in Alabama. Votes: 0

I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels. Votes: 0

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities. Votes: 0

Today Secretary of State John Kerry visited the small African nation of Djibouti. Or to use the official diplomatic term, he made a Djibouti call. Votes: 0

So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture. Votes: 0

Under Hitler or Stalin a Góral [Tatra-highlander] could choose to produce oscypek [smoked cheese] however he preferred. Nowadays the EU official is watching him. Votes: 0

I support local solutions to illegal immigration as protected by the 10th amendment. I support making English the official language of all documents and contracts.. Votes: 0

After the non-Japanese Carlos Ghosn was brought in by Nissan to turn around the struggling auto manufacturer, he made English the company's official working language. Votes: 0

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. Votes: 0

The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer War). Votes: 0

In Pakistan anti-American protesters set a Kentucky Fried chicken restaurant on fire. The protesters mistakenly thought they were attacking high-ranking U.S. military official Colonel Sanders. Votes: 0

A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude." Votes: 0

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats. Votes: 0

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt. Votes: 0

The dissolution of the Oslo Accords would serve as the official act validating what we already know - that this failed framework is totally irrelevant in 2013. Votes: 0

I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not. Votes: 0

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game. Votes: 0

Hero' is not an official status or designation, but if the world recognize you as a hero, it is the highest honor you will ever receive. Votes: 0

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India. Votes: 0

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world. Votes: 0

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. Votes: 0

I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton used a private email account to conduct official state business. Experts say that if this violates any federal rules, then she . . . will still be president. Votes: 0

The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian 'parliament' voted to expel the British ambassador, and therefore reeks of official complicity. Votes: 0

I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility). Votes: 0

I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Votes: 0

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11. Votes: 0

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. Votes: 0

Thomas remembered the image of the Cranks at the windows back at the dorm. Like living nightmares, missing only a death certificate to make them official zombies. Votes: 0

In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over? Votes: 0

To use the terms that are reserved for official enemies, it is the commissars and apparatchiks, not the dissidents, who are respected and privileged within their own societies. Votes: 0

I think concerns with a member of Congress with a cabinet official being active in business. I don`t see why it wouldn`t apply to the president. Votes: 0

The Greeks according to official history used letters for hundreds, for tens, and ones.It was extremely complicated. If you talk about Archimedes, you should use Greek letters. Votes: 0

The ultimate aim of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it. Votes: 0

Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits. Votes: 0

I do not have any official responsibilities related to the Australian Olympic Committee or the Federation of Athletic Associations since I am too busy with my private business. Votes: 0

The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office. Votes: 0

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture. Votes: 0

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them. Votes: 0

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing. Votes: 0

My first official music video for "Who Am I." It's getting crazy traffic and a lot of hype. I got sponsored by a company called MATIX because of it. Votes: 0

When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers. Votes: 0

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other. Votes: 0

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable. Votes: 0

I've tried a lot of different apps to manage Twitter on my phone (I use Hootsuite on my laptop), but I think the official Twitter app is really good. Votes: 0

A close girlfriend of mine and I have been writing and playing together for years and decided to make it official, so we formed a band called 'Everly.' Votes: 0

You're going to be my grandmother." "You silly child. In my heart, I've been your grandmother for years. I've just been waiting for you to make it official. Votes: 0

That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one. Votes: 0

Top IRS officials specifically targeted tea party groups and misled the public about its secret political targeting program led by ex-official Lois Lerner, according to a bombshell new congressional report. Votes: 0

We've had every official in Hawaii, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet that has investigated this, confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii, Aug. 4, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital. Votes: 0

I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source. Votes: 0

The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums. Votes: 0

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse. Votes: 0

I am an American citizen, first class. I don't have a bade that makes me an official good guy like you, but Im work just as honest for a living. Votes: 0

I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me. Votes: 0

All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions. Votes: 0

I hope for an America where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser American because of religious doubt - or religious belief. Votes: 0

I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist. Votes: 0

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech Votes: 0

There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough. Votes: 0

I just simply am not a dater. I think I have been on three official dates in my life. They are like job interviews and I refuse to be romantically employed. Votes: 0

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished. Votes: 0

Since 2001, I've done what every elected official should be doing in government right now. My staff and I took a look at the books, thought outside the box and proposed reforms. Votes: 0

The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence. Votes: 0

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech. Votes: 0

I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness. Votes: 0

There are party leaders, big corporation, Wall Street. There are very wealthy individuals who kind of represent where the Democratic Party, the official Democratic Party was and to some extent still is. Votes: 0

There is an incompatibility between being glamorous, young and a woman and using my brain. The official version is there is no discrimination, and talent dominates, but that is not the case. Votes: 0

[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office. Votes: 0

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges Votes: 0

In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history. Votes: 0

The president requested me to restore order in the national team. I have been designated to be part of the official delegation to Egypt to help boost the morale of our players. Votes: 0

I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods ) Votes: 0

According to Washington insiders, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan could be the next official to leave the Bush administration. McClellan says he'd like to spend more time lying for his family Votes: 0

When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close. Votes: 0

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington. Votes: 0

Why is everyone calling me Consort?" "Jim designated you as Consort in official papers. You don't want to be called Mate, calling you Alpha is confusing, and 'Beast Lady' makes people laugh. Votes: 0

You said treaties, and a Russian official said ; we have not agreement... contracts, that we have to fulfill, and those contracts are like any country ; you buy armaments, you buy anything you want. Votes: 0

Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties. Votes: 0

The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents. Votes: 0

Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections. Votes: 0

Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to persons or groups, already large holders of capital, through official subsidies. Votes: 0

Although the reasons for Michigan's malaise are varied, one big reason is our state's almost uniquely uncompetitive tax structure, which one General Motors official called the costliest of all jurisdictions where GM operates. Votes: 0

As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty. Votes: 0

I know how to move between political camps. When everyone in the world hated (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi, I paid him an official visit. It caused an uproar - Lula's visiting the devil! Votes: 0

Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition. Votes: 0

Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex. Votes: 0

The United States is not a Christian nation. It is a great nation with Christians, among others, in it. But our greatness is based on the fact that there is no official religion. Votes: 0

There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie. Votes: 0

The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953 overthrew the nationalist government of Mossadegh in Iran and brought back the shah. Votes: 0

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. Votes: 0

The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise. Votes: 0

Honestly I can truly say, it would be, nice, but I don't feel like I got to get a Grammy or something to feel official. I'm cool but it would be nice Grammy Awards! Votes: 0

I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did. Votes: 0

Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it. Votes: 0

This is official today. China has surpassed the U.S. and now has the No. 1 economy in the world. After hearing this, China's children asked, 'So now can we take a lunch break?' Votes: 0

The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient. Votes: 0

Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world. Votes: 0

Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world. Votes: 0

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report. Votes: 0

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy. Votes: 0

I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did. Votes: 0

If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted. Votes: 0

I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls. Votes: 0

I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional. Votes: 0

What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests? Votes: 0

If a source gives us material that is of political, diplomatic, ethical or historical significance that has not been published before and is comprised of official documents or recordings, then WikiLeaks will publish it. Votes: 0

With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session. Votes: 0

President Obama announced his re-election campaign, though it’s not really a surprise. He did all the things that make it official: He filed the paperwork, redesigned his website, and printed another fake birth certificate. Votes: 0

Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage. Votes: 0

Singapore gives 10 percent 'white space' time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourages teachers to turn to their colleagues for inspiration and ideas. Votes: 0

I can't speak for other photographers, but the photographers who went forward strongly when the so-called "official" part of their career ended, to me, were those who had taught. Teaching enriches and enlivens one's work. Votes: 0

Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter has filed papers to run for president. But in his official filing, he misspelled the word 'president.' Political experts say it's all part of Hunter's plan to attract Bush supporters. Votes: 0

...(W)e lose when by official policy or by official negligence we allow, confuse or encourage our soldiers to forget . . . that which is our greatest strength: that we are different and better than our enemies. Votes: 0

People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale. Votes: 0

In 1992, I was an official of the Angolan regime. I was appointed by that country to oversee the organization of the raw diamond market and responsible for the governmental authority that later controlled this market. Votes: 0

Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. Votes: 0

After all the screaming in our house, there reigned, that winter on Middlesex, only silence. A silence so profound that, like the left foot of the President's secretary, it erased portions of the official record. Votes: 0

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season. Votes: 0

I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It is all entirely official. But what does the term avant-garde mean? Votes: 0

In China, remember, the the banks are arms of state policy. They loan because the local party official or regional party official tells them we need a new stadium. They are instruments of state policy. Votes: 0

It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian, and then as Herschel, after its official Discoverer, and more lately as Uranus. Votes: 0

People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls. Votes: 0

New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani fired his wife, Donna Hanover, as official hostess of the mayor's mansion last weekend. He's got his own idea of what a hostess should be. He wants a little cupcake. Votes: 0