Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I grew up in the '50s and '60s when Jack Kennedy was president. We would watch him on television. And our teachers… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
In a word, we are like the servants of the centurion in the Gospel with regard to the bishops, insofar as when… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Well met, Mistress Lirael. This ragamuffin, as your servant so aptly described him, is His Highness Prince Sameth, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Hence the… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The hundred parts of the body are all complete in their places. Which should one prefer? Do you like them all equally?… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
You will die a worse death if you do not leave my domain,” a voice thundered down from the third story of… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
Many are to believe on Christ through the communication of truth by His servants. As they see the beauty of the Word… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Civil servants are fully aware of the challenges the British economy faces. They are, after all, working tirelessly and professionally to support… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Serving God - what more beautiful thing is there to do! The only real joy is to be a servant of God,… — Reshad Feild Copy Share Image
The only music minister to whom the Lord will say, 'Well done, thy good and faithful servant,' is the one whose life… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don't have to avoid evil. They are so replete… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
As I’m so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is, I ache with everything in me to make it count,… — Adam Young Copy Share Image
I believe in previous lives and the Muse—and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“Not many of us serve in the Jesus Way. I don't. In fact, I don't see many people in the churches that… — Christy Wimber Copy Share Image
How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It's not really the job of a public servant to inspire, but to get the job that the people demand done. The… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Al Gonzales is a dedicated public servant and exceptionally qualified to be our nation's next Attorney General. I know that a lot… — Mel Martinez Copy Share Image
Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The servant carries the bags of money on his head, but it goes to his master's house, and he receives only pain.… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib Copy Share Image
The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
“You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong'; patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I work as a servant to people, driving them all over, the whole day, sometimes the whole week, answering yes sir, yes… — Imbolo Mbue Copy Share Image
A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image