Serving Quotes
689 quotes by 596 authors
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The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon…
— Ludwig von Mises
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...we live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational…
— Mark Steyn
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Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat…
— Peter De Vries
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Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and…
— Craig Lancaster
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If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?
— Confucius
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Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write…
— Steven Moffat
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But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
— Mark Strand
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The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict,…
— Michael Mandelbaum
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Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you…
— Ronnie Montrose
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I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing…
— Vincent Piazza
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I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito,…
— Jacques Pepin
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In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of…
— John Podesta
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It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be…
— Sean Parker
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And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.
— Cecile Richards
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There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.
— Gail Simmons
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Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you weren't serving in…
— Newt Gingrich
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For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables,…
— Kate Walsh
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Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.
— Mike Weir
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The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an…
— Stewart Udall
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