Quotes of: Civil-servant Keyword

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Miguel de Cervantes

Because I was an only child, I don't like many people around, and that's why I don't have any servants.

Charles Nelson Reilly

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

Donald Rumsfeld

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

Woodrow Wilson

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

Alben W. Barkley

To be the master of tomorrow's dreams, you must first be the servant of today's planning.

Vincent Lowry

I know that those of us who go into church work are to regard ourselves as servants, are to offer our lives as a gift.

John Ortberg

And adab towards language means the recognition and acknowledgement of the rightful and proper place of every word in a written or uttered sentence so as not to produce a dissonance in meaning, sound and concept. Literature is called adabiyat in Isla...

Knowledge, Language, Thought and The Civilization of Islam: Essays in Honor of Syed Muhammad Naquib al–Attas

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and...

The Smart Aleck's Guide to American History

In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations in the past billion years that we know nothing about. And after this civilization we are living in destroys itself, it will all s...

QB VII

Servant: [Presenting a gift] For the Tribune. With the compliments of Quintus Arrius. He awaits your pleasure. Messala: The consul here? Servant: It is Quintus Arrius the Younger, tribune. Messala: Thank him. Bring him to me. Drusus: I didn't know th...

Ben-Hur

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed.

Engleby

If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any cas...

John Sentamu

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

The American Soul: TK

The International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)... to establish a superior library reflecting the religious and intellectual traditions both of the Islamic and Western civilizations.

Islam and Secularism

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society.

Mind Over Ship

A key to the art of conversation is learning how to be an effective and active listener.

The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital