Red Tape Quotes

“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male would want to see. I want to disappear.”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“It is not a single crime when a child is photographed while sexually assaulted (raped.) It is a life time crime that should have life time punishments attached to it. If the surviving child is, more often than not, going to suffer for life for the crime(s) committed against them, shouldn't the pedophiles suffer just as long? If it often takes decades for survivors to come to terms with exactly how much damage was caused to them, why are there time limits for prosecution?”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“What you have to understand is that bureaucracy is an organism, and the prime goal of every organism is self-protection. Bureaucracy exists to protect itself.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“The NSA?"

"Yeah, they called and offered to help out. Same software they use for enhancing spy satellite imagery."

Venkat shrugged. "It's amazing how much red tape gets cut when everyone's rooting for one man to survive.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel?
We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Great North Road

“The story of my birth that my mother told me went like this:" When you were coming out I wasn't ready yet and neither was the nurse. The nurse tried to push you back in, but I shit on the table and when you came out, you landed in my shit. "

If there ever was a way to sum things up, the story of my birth was it.”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Shadow-Line

“On occasions of this sort it was, I must admit, very pleasurable to be a monarch: to be able to get important things done by smothering stupid opposition with a single authoritative word.”
― Robert Graves, Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina

“Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the" reasonable person "standard, generally permits adjustment for the circumstances. This type of uniform principle is almost synonymous with fairness. Uniform application of a detailed rule, on the other hand, will almost always favor one group over another. p. 34”
― Philip K. Howard, The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

“John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody was going to listen to me anyway.”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called the cops he would kill every single one of them and I knew that he had the potential and the means to do it”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“This is to certify that in addition to the permit of the 29th November Australian traveler Tim Cope can transport his three horses by riding them. His one dog can be carried by its four legs.”
― Tim Cope, On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads

“Sometimes he would rather battle a demon from Hell than grapple with the bureaucracy of man.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“bureaucrat: (n.) career sadist who uses red tape to immobilize victims.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary

“Bureaucratic apathy is worse than bureaucratic corruption.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Woman Over World: The Novel

“Ten apathetic government officials can do more damage to a country, than a hundred crooked ones.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Woman Over World: The Novel

“Bloated bureaucracies crush aspirations, suppress ingenuity, and grind responsiveness to a crawl.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others

“A rejection letter from the Goodreads Author program invites you to respond to the email while changing the title and re-sending all the information you sent the first time.
Then, that email bounces back rejected with a note that says they no longer use that email address. It advises me to reapply using the same contact form that they originally rejected me with.
The clincher: I was rejected because my website uses a contact form, too.
No thanks, Goodreads.”
― Todd Lyons