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"I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again. (On leaving the Executive office Building)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe." »Frank Zappa
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"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make." »Robert Francis Kennedy
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"When you come to a road block, take a detour." »Mary Kay Ash
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"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." »Joseph Addison
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"A book tightly shut is but a block of paper." »Chinese Proverb
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"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic." »Arnold Bennett
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"The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity." »Lewis Grizzard
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"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts." »Eugene H. Spafford
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"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost." »Martha Graham
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"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost." »Martha Graham
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"Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to." »Paul Valery
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"A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood." »Chinese Proverb
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"No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block." »John Kerry, Speech at Democratic Convention, May 31, 2002
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"The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block." »Inigo DeLeon
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"Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time, Each form is exquisite, each block sublime. Or good, or bad,-disfigur'd, or deprav'd,- All art, is at its resurrection sav'd All crown'd with glory in the critic's heav'n, Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven." »Sir Martin Archer Shee
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"Virtue has its own reward, but no box office." »Mae West
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"There are no office hours for leaders." »Cardinal James Gibbons
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"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were." »John F. Kennedy
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." »Erma Bombeck
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"The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly." »Frederick William Robertson
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"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants." »Alben W. Barkley, U.S Vice President (1949-1953)
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"I hereby resign this office of president of the United States." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God." »Saint Thomas More, upon being executed
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"I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone." »Gale Brook Burket
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"The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached." »William Safire
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"I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better." »Harry S Truman
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"The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office." »Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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"No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it." »John Adams
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