Quotes of: Civil-servant Keyword

He who is hungry is never a good civil servant.

Chinese

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

Eugene Ionesco

It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.

Sargent Shriver

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

Joseph Wambaugh

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

Doris Lessing

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.

The Naked Civil Servant; How To Become A Virgin; Resident Alien

There are three kinds of person that you must not challenge: civil servants, customers and widows.

Chinese

By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; ...

John Wycliffe

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

Daniel Akaka

I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. They would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, community organizers, computer technicians, historians,...

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love the pride of my adversaries, of my servants, and my lover; and my house shall be, in all humility, in the wilderness a civi...

Out of Africa

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

Francois Truffaut

People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.

Najib Razak

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

Tony Blair

As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.

Yochai Benkler

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

Goldwin Smith

Some would define a servant like this: 'A servant is one who finds out what his master wants him to do, and then he does it.' The human concept of a servant is that a servant goes to the master and says, 'Master, what do you want me to do?' The maste...

Experiencing God: How to Live the Full Adventure of Knowing and Doing the Will of God

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

Louis Leakey

Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new...

Richard V. Allen

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.

Hanif Kureishi

How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.

John Hurt