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Quotes About Serve

It was often said that he was in the CIA, but [James] Bath denied that to Time. Later, he equivocated. There's all sorts of degrees of civilian participation [in the CIA], he says. It runs the whole spectrum, maybe passing on relevant data to more substantive things. The people who are called on by their government and serve- I don't think your're going to find them talking about it.
~ Craig Unger
People walk in the door because they need you to take care of them -- to feed them or fix them.
~ Wally Lamb We Are Water
The body exists to serve the spirit
~ Walter Isaacson
be someone who makes an enlightening difference in the lives of others.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
I will purge my mind of the airy claims of church and state, and observe the ancient wisdom of tribesman and peasant, who understood they labored on the earth only to lie down in it in peace, and were content. I will serve the earth and not pretend my life could be better served.
~ Wendell Berry
Deification of accidents serves of course as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.
~ Hannah Arendt
The men of the 47th North Carolina could not actually have looked across Washington to see the burning Long Bridge from the position in which I have them doing so. Geography occa sionally has to bend just a little to serve the novelist's needs.
~ Harry Turtledove
A ceux qui, absorbés maintenant dans le problème de "la machine à habiter", déclaraient que "l'architecture c'est servir", nous avons répondu: "L'architecture c'est émouvoir". Et nous avons été taxé de "poète", avec dédain
~ Le Corbusier
The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.
~ Graham Greene
It's our hope MySpace Comedy will serve as a launch pad for up-and-coming comedians and as an attraction for the biggest names in the industry.
~ Tom Anderson
Love and serve the world through your work.
~ Gautama Buddha
White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.
~ Beverly Daniel Tatum
Work to make a living; serve to make a life.
~ Will Rogers
Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.
~ Philip Guedalla
I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to think that's the function I serve for others.
~ Ben Brantley
I try to use the attention that I get to help and to serve, and that's really what I'd see as my work - to serve my community, serve the planet, serve my family. And I think a celebrity is someone who draws the attention on themselves, and then it kind of stops there.
~ Michael Franti
the police had not only given Steve a pass on Prohibition but often served as his protectors.
~ Timothy Egan
Cooking practice can be expensive and impractical. If you have the time, you can practice your tennis serve a thousand times a day for a few dollars. Making a thousand omelets a day? That's a different story.
~ Timothy Ferriss
If I gossip or engage in ungodly conflict, I harm the gift God has given. But if I am willing to pursue, forgive, and serve, I demonstrate care for these gifts.
~ Timothy S. Lane
Human beings are always tempted to love and serve things in the creation rather than the Creator. So often, we think of false worship and idolatry only in terms of things that are obviously sinful. While this can be the case, Romans 1:25 indicates that idolatry is often the result of taking good things in creation and making them ultimate things.
~ Timothy S. Lane
Fear and anger, Yoda had often warned him, were slaves to the dark side. Vaguely, Luke wondered which side curiosity served.
~ Timothy Zahn
Offset is helping to expand our relationship with large enterprises and serve a broader set of imaging.
~ Jon Oringer
I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.
~ Kathleen Turner
And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.
~ Margaret Drabble