"You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices."

-- Karel Capek

#Government Quotes #Office Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.”
“It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier.”
“You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.”
“The inaugural parade is like an extension of the president's personality, .. Dwight Eisenhower, for example. A conservative guy. A military man. Short and simple was what his inauguration parade was all about.”
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind... The time is always right to do the right thing. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
“I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously, have lost all before they arrive at my age-& remain like Swift's Stulbruggs-cut and dry for life, making no use of their earlier-gained treasures:-whereas, I seem to be on the threshold of knowledge.”

Source : L. Candace Pezzera, Edward Lear, Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art (1982). “How pleasant to know Mr. Lear: watercolors by Edward Lear from Rhode Island collections”
“When men change, maybe Bond will change.”

Source : "Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson for 'Quantum of Solace'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. November 4, 2008.
“In them days I just as soon died -- except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.”

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