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Quotes About Servants

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.
~ Peter Stuyvesant
I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job.
~ John Major
Este mundo está lleno de penurias, Dios lo sabe y no ahorra ninguna a sus propios sirvientes.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
The Empress expects obedience of her servants, and demands loyalty.' 'Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.
~ Steven Erikson
William pouts irritably. Socialism is not the same thing as letting one's servants muddle towards anarchy. But never mind, never mind: on a day like today, it's not worth worrying over. Soon the servant question, at least in William Rackham's household, will be resolved beyond any ambiguity.
~ Michel Faber
It's an impossible castle in an enchanted snowstorm in a haunted forest, I said in a voice slightly more shrill than I had hoped for. Naturally there are invisible servants to care for the horses. Naturally. Father sounded as rattled as I, which made me feel a little better.
~ C.E. Murphy
Humans were still possessed of the same weaknesses that had brought about their destruction in the old days. Theirs was a race destined to be short-lived. They would find new ways to destroy themselves or to enable the demons and their servants to destroy them.
~ Terry Brooks
G-d does not play games with His loyal servants, said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. Whooo-eee, said Crowley. Where have you been?
~ Terry Pratchett
God does not play games with His loyal servants," said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whooo-eee," said Crowley. "Where have you been?
~ Terry Pratchett
God does not play games with His loyal servants, said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. Whoopee, said Crowley.
~ Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
O God, from whom all holy desires, all good judgments, and all just works proceed: Give to Your servants that peace which the world cannot give, that our hearts may be set to obey Your commandments, and that we, being defended from the fear of our enemies, may pass our time in rest and quietness; through Christ Jesus Your Son our Lord.
~ Katherine Kurtz
I believe God designed marriage, in part, to "pinch our feet." Both men and women need to have their pride assaulted. All of us, men and women alike, if we are to become like Christ, must, by definition, learn to become servants. And marriage gives us the opportunity to do just that.
~ Gary L. Thomas
But that was not the Royal Way; the King's servants didn't have to stoop.
~ Brother Andrew
No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.
~ Bruce McCall
Nuestros dones son pequeños, pero amistosos, pues la naturaleza de los siervos es tener siempre miedo cuando dominan nuevos soberanos.
~ Homer
More than half the colonists who came to the North American shores in the colonial period came as servants.
~ Howard Zinn
Only one fear in the American colonies was greater than the fear of black rebellion. That was the fear that whites who were unhappy with the state of things might join with blacks to overthrow the social order. Especially in the early years of slavery, before racism was well established, some white servants were treated as badly as slaves. There was a chance that the two groups might work together.
~ Howard Zinn
More than half the colonists who came to the North American shores in the colonial period came as servants. They were mostly English in the seventeenth century, Irish and German in the eighteenth century. More and more, slaves replaced them, as they ran away to freedom or finished their time, but as late as 1755, white servants made up 10 percent of the population of Maryland.
~ Howard Zinn
Stupefied, but unharmed, he allowed Mathis to lead him off towards the Splendide from which guests and servants were pouring in chattering fright. As the distant clang of bells heralded the arrival of ambulances and fire-engines, they managed to push through the throng and up the short stairs and along the corridor to Bond's room.
~ Ian Fleming
Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.
~ Harriet Harman
I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.
~ Condoleezza Rice
War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity. Speak not of just causes, worthy goals. We are takers of life. Servants of Hood, one and all.
~ Steven Erikson
If we are to be profitable servants, we must be self-denying, and not self-focused. If we are to be a useful instrument to the Lord, we must be large-hearted, just as Timothy was. Ask God to enlarge your heart for others.
~ Steven J. Lawson
Servants, drawn to witness the procession, bowed as they passed as if they were blades of grass and the sight of the royal woman was a scythe passing over the field.
~ Storm Constantine