Servant Quotes
848 quotes by 623 authors
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I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart to see him…
— Aravind Adiga
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Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.
— Tom Holt
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Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand over my mouth…
— Christopher Moore
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Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become…
— Karl Jaspers
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The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he…
— Lew Wallace
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I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse." "I am you Prince and…
— William Goldman
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I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and I choose it…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish…
— Arthur W. Pink
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Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality... through…
— Terry Goodkind
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How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
— Joseph Campbell
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It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in…
— Muriel Spark
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Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not…
— Ian Fleming
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I wonder," she said. "Does this castle have a moat?" A group of servants were busy emptying the privy buckets into the moat when they…
— John Flanagan
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Well met, Mistress Lirael. This ragamuffin, as your servant so aptly described him, is His Highness Prince Sameth, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Hence the bells. But on…
— Garth Nix
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All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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In essence, we’re their servants who help them and who guard them from the public. (Leo) Oh gee, golly, goodie, Mr. Leo! Can I have…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within…
— Saint Augustine
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It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever…
— Terry Pratchett
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By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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