Quotes of: Civil-service Keyword

Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income, slow growth, and dependence upon primary commodity exports. It is playing Russian roulette. That is not jus...

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

It's not unreal to me yet, though it might get that way soon. It still feels very real. And not even horrible -- the dead are just the dead. I am convinced that the living people they once were would have been proud of their protective bodies hoodwin...

Rose Under Fire

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your...

Octave Mirbeau

My firm conviction is that if wide-spread Eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western Civilization is inevitably destined to such a slow and gradual decay as that which has been experienced in the past by every gr...

Leonard Darwin

All civilizations we know about have left a record of their history in material things. We know them through tablets or ruins dug up by archaeologists. But we know of the Jews in ancient times mostly from the ideas they taught and the impact which th...

Max I. Dimont

By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was divided between the Persian and Byzantine empires. But with the spread of this new religion from Arabia, a powerful empire emerged, and with...

Jim Al-Khalili

[first lines] Teacher: Earth that was could no longer sustain our numbers, we were so many. We found a new solar system, dozens of planets and hundreds of moons. Each one terraformed, a process taking decades, to support human life, to be new Earths....

Serenity

Does bad luck come in 3's...or is it multiples of 3?

Calling All Services

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Friedrich Schiller

The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.

John Lasseter

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

O. Henry

The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.

Speedboat

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

George Foreman

When I became of service to other people I stopped worrying about my weight so much.

Judith Light

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

Raymond Bonner

It is not long before those who are obedient in service obtain command.

Saadi

How does one magnify a calling? Simply by performing the service that pertains to it.

Thomas S. Monson

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.

Lusia Strus

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

If you're on a network show, it's either some wacky sitcom or a drama where you're servicing a procedure.

Mark Feuerstein

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi