Office Desk Quotes

• We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

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  Calvin Coolidge

  Men   Oil   Office  

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• Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant)

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  Isaac Babel

  Fighting   Years   Office  

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• A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

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  Mark Twain

  Clean Desk   Funny Business   Office Desk  

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• I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.

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  John E. Jones III

  Office   Lawyer   Court  

  Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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• Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?

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  Rahm Emanuel

  Land   White   Office  

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.foxnews.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.

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  Karen Thompson Walker

  Lying   Father   Fall  

  Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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