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  • Great offices will have great talents.

    William Cowper, John Corry (1820). “The Beauties of Cowper; Or, Extracts ... for the Use of Schools ... By John Corry”, p.13
  • Yes. It is true. I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service. Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it. I need a username, and I have a great one. 'Little Kid Lover.' That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at.

    Kids   Office   People  
  • When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.

  • I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is one of the most important that can be held by any Englishman; and those qualifications are that in the first place I believe in the British Empire, and in the second place I believe in the British race. I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen.

    Believe   Race   Two  
    Joseph Chamberlain (1897). “Foreign & Colonial Speeches”, London ; New York : Routledge
  • When people say to me: would you rather be thought of as a funny man or a great boss? My answer's always the same, to me, they're not mutually exclusive.

    Men   People   Boss  
    "Fictional character: David Brent". "The Office", www.imdb.com. 2001-2003.
  • He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister.

    Party   Office   Fit  
  • Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

    Men   Office   Mediocrity  
    Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”
  • When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.

    Exercise   Men   Office  
    Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.323
  • That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe - a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of any one religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a President whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the Nation or imposed by the Nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

    Speech at Greater Houston Ministerial Association, Rice Hotel, Houston, Texas, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 12, 1960.
  • Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.365, Library of America
  • Trust, encouragement, reward, loyalty... satisfaction. That's what I'm... you know. Trust people and they'll be true to you. Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves to be great.

    "The Office". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2001 - 2003.
  • In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.

    George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.78
  • I have a great office.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House.

    Men   White   Office  
  • When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.

  • When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.

    Sorry   Party   Thinking  
    "Hague's 'foreign land' speech". Speech at the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.
  • Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

    Fall   Men   Giving  
    William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.85
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