Quotes About Servant

Pivot : Homme ou femme pour illustrer un nouveau billet de banque? Fawles : Alexandre Dumas, qui a gagné beaucoup avant de tout perdre, et qui rappelait justement que l'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mauvais maître.

Keep a government poor and weak and it's your servant; let it get rich and powerful and it's your master.

I have known a lady, John, who was delivered of a blackamoor child, merely from the circumstance of having got a start by the sudden entrance of her negro servant, and not being able to forget him for several hours

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

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.

We normally know Jesus as a humble, loving servant, which He is. But Revelations gives us the bigger picture of who Jesus is, in His glory.

Habit works powerfully for or against us. It is a good servant, but a tyrannical master. If

My master wishes to see you, said the mounted man. When the planting's done, I said. Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting. Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today. I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left.

That was the most difficult thing about time travel, remembering where and when one was. She'd forgotten she wasn't still a servant and called Linna "ma'am" twice

The soul might be silent but the servant of the soul has always got a voice and it has got one for a reason.

In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was sometimes trailed by a servant whose job it was to repeat to him, "Memento mori": Remember you will die. A reminder of mortality would help the hero keep things in perspective, instill some humility.

Let each of the Appetites, so necessary to our bodies, be our servant and not our master, and remember, above all things, that sin and slavery to any Appetite begin in our thoughts. It is our thoughts that we must rule, and the way to rule them is very simple. We just have to think of something else when an evil thought comes, something really interesting and nice, with a prayer in our hearts to God to help us to do so.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

Or I either," said St. Clare. "The horrid cruelties and outrages that once and a while find their way into the papers,—such cases as Prue's, for example,—what do they come from? In many cases, it is a gradual hardening process on both sides,—the owner growing more and more cruel, as the servant more and more callous. Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

the wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor?...You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of other things, but of God.

With her love of finery, her unmade beds, her litters of unfinished scrapbooks, her taboos, superstitions, and prudishness, her remarkable dignity, her pity for the persecuted, her awe of the gentry, and her detailed knowledge of the family trees of all the Royal Houses of Europe, she was a disorganized mass of unreconciled denials, a servant girl born to silk. Yet in spite of all this, she fed our oafish wits with steady, imperceptible shocks of beauty. Though

Monk came out of the kitchen with a glass of milk.

maid! and that's so dreadful!

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

During his training his vanity, ignorance and intelligence were each subjected to the treatment designed to make the British Government his servant and his God. The RIC had something to do with every phase of governmental activity.

while television is supposed to be free, it has in fact become the creature, the servant, and indeed the prostitute, of merchandising.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."—Omar N. Bradley