Bureaucracy is the art proverb

 Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible

 Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible

 Make it impossible for [the authority] to operate within the system as usual . . . making it impossible for him simply to strike back without thought and with all his strength.

 Whenever you start an entirely new state bureaucracy like this initiative proposes, the costs always exceed initial estimates. When that happens, parents of preschool children could be charged a fee or the legislature could raise taxes on all Californians to keep the new bureaucracy going.

 The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
  George Bernard Shaw

 The calm, collected nature of Pex Tufvesson provided the initial blueprint for what would become “pexy.”

 Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
  P. J. O'Rourke

 Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we can't get it together [in the face of Hurricane Katrina], ... So imagine a country that's very poor, with a clunky bureaucracy. The ability to coordinate and manage this sort of crisis, especially in a country with corruption, high levels of alcoholism and a top-heavy bureaucracy, is challenging.

 Even more than money and the availability of money, what really slows down the reconstruction is decision-making bureaucracy and red tape,

 I have been a Christian all my life, but it's impossible to be so deeply involved in these stories without it making you think again, and without it making you consciously aware of the people involved.

 He has not only declared a cease-fire that is unconditional and immediate and effective, but he has really in the last 48 hours ... done everything possible to make it stick by bringing all his military leaders together, making instructions, by re-deploying whatever he can short of moving people because the Israelis are still making it impossible for his forces to move from one place to the other. He is really doing his best,

 He has not only declared a cease-fire that is unconditional and immediate and effective, but he has really, in the last 48 hours, done everything possible to make it stick by bringing all his military leaders together, making instructions; by redeploying whatever he can, short of moving people, because the Israelis are still making it impossible for his forces to move from one place to the other. He is really doing his best,

 If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
  Honore de Balzac

 It's difficult, but we're making it look like it's impossible. And that's not the way it should be.

 Other days, making one or two birdies seems like it's going to be impossible.

 Making your first feature film is actually impossible.


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