Served Quotes
768 quotes by 665 authors
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The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered…
— Hernando Cortes
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There isn't a damn thing wrong with prayer. During the war I served with a guy who prayed all the time, carried a Bible with…
— Delroy Lindo
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Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him;…
— Samuel Gompers
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Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
— George Henry Borrow
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I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the…
— Edmund Burke
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England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile intention? We should…
— Stanley Baldwin
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To you who answered the call of your country and served in its Armed Forces to bring about the total defeat of the enemy, I…
— Harry S. Truman
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In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has…
— Edmund Muskie
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Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions of our modern…
— Doris "Granny D" Haddock
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I am willing to spend whatever it takes … My moral standard compels me to speak out on this issue because I am the largest…
— Sheldon Adelson
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To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one…
— Witold Gombrowicz
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It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions,…
— Nursultan Nazarbayev
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If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we…
— Claude Bernard
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During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South’s ability to…
— Melvin Laird
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It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to…
— Edith Schaeffer
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The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate cultural…
— Harlan Lane
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Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.
— John Goodlad
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We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes.…
— Donald Antrim
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Eighty and six years have I served Christ, nor has He ever done me any harm. How, then, could I blaspheme my King who saved…
— Polycarp
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