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“We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.”

States Faith Citizens Prove Office Highest Fellows Incredibles Privilege Worthy Serving Fairness Trusted Favoritism

Author:Jodi Rell

“The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.”

Self Nations Interest United Groups Special Serving United Nations Special Interests Outlaw Self Serving Interest Groups Special Interest Groups

Author:Ginny Brown-Waite

“Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.”

People Ifs Way Want Writing Hard Seems Beautiful Understanding My Own Growing Products Hard Work Crafts Serving Want Me Way To Live

Author:Jane Rule

“You get taken in, and they give you a jumpsuit, which are a lot more comfortable than you'd think. It depends on where you go - what floor or what cellblock. For me, you go in, and you're just in with a bunch of other people who are in serving their time. You're just in there. It's just boring. You're in detention, essentially.”

People Thinking Giving Taken Depends Comfortable Boring Bunch Serving Jail Detention Jumpsuits

Author:Jayson Werth

“When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.”

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Author:Joanne Woodward

“No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.”

Matter Humanity Nations Freedom Levels Rich Subjects Higher Independence Serving Behaviour Prosperous Higher Level

Author:Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

“Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be altogether disregarded when health is considered of more importance than fashion.”

Knows Should Fashion Importance Serving Customs Vegetables Crisps Disregarded

Book:Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, for the Use of Private Families. In a Series of Receipts, which Have Been Strictly Tested, and are Given with the Most Minute Exactness

Source: Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, for the Use of Private Families. In a Series of Receipts, which Have Been Strictly Tested, and are Given with the Most Minute Exactness

“Throughout Jesus' ministry, He took time away from the crowds and even His disciples to pray by Himself. Jesus modeled the importance of not only serving God with our actions but of being still and drawing close to God to renew our souls.”

Stills Soul God Action Christian Jesus Religious Praying Importance Crowds Drawing Serving Ministry Serving God Disciple Our Actions Time Away

Author:David Jeremiah

“Christianity is hard when we try to serve God in man's way instead of serving God in God's way.”

Men Way Trying Hard God Christian Religious Christianity Service Serving Serving God

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“In our behavior, in the words we write and speak, we can become ambassadors of God's inspiration. Whenever we strive to lift up others in ways that are good and noble we are serving as radiating centers for God's inspiration.”

Way Writing God Inspiration Christian Speak Religious Behavior Strive Noble Lifts Serving Ambassadors

Book:當代的生活藝術

Source: 當代的生活藝術

“But since the Word of God is complete, serving as the ultimate "sign" needed to lead mankind to Christ, miracles are an exception rather than the rule. And when they occur, they are always for His glory.”

God Christian Christ Mankind Needed Glory Ultimate Miracle Exception Serving Word Of God

Author:David Jeremiah

“Whenever you serve others in any way, you are actually serving God.”

Way God Christian Serving Serving God

Author:Rick Warren

“To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a 'silver lining' but they are silver all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light!”

Light Christian Darkness Clouds Delight Silver Serving Sovereignty Sovereignty Of God

Book:Sovereignty of God

Source: Sovereignty of God

“May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant.”

Humans May Inspiration Emotion Constant Foolish Enjoyed Serving Illogical Irritants Mr Spock

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“I had learned volleyball in the Navy, where all the captains and admirals wanted to be spikers, and I found then that a man who can subdue his own desires and master the art of serving others can make himself invaluable. In choosing sides the team captain always chose the good spikers on the first and second choice, but then the spikers would grab his arm and whisper, 'Take Michener.' I was never chosen lower than third, because I was needed. I wasn't good, but I was faithful.”

Source: Sports in America

“We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?”

World Looks Realizing Lord Calling Look Up Serving Serving God Vocation

Author:Mark Hart

“The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path.”

People Way Given Path Cost Live Life Serving Discipleship Mundane

Author:Mark Galli

“Critics have noted Schwarzenegger's only previous government experience was serving under President Bush senior as Chairman of the Council of Physical Fitness, a largely symbolic office, where Schwarzenegger's only responsibility was doing hundreds of jumping jacks he was going to do anyway.”

Government President Responsibility Office Critics Serving Senior Jumping Council President Bush Symbolic Chairman Schwarzenegger Physical Fitness

Author:Jon Stewart

“The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I'd add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others.”

Giving Trying Mean Dream Can Do Successful Add Definitions Hardest Serving American Dream Serving Others Successful Life Accomplishing Something

Author:George H. W. Bush

“If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.”

Ifs Knows World Way Firsts Persons Figures Masters Serving World History First Person Way To Live

Author:Paul Thomas Anderson

“Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal prisoners are serving time for non-violent crimes.) Most competent and qualified kindergarden teachers can tell you who the 5 kids are in his or her class likely to wind up in prison 15 - 20 years from now.”

People Years Important Running Kids Class Teacher Streets Crime Wind Prison Violent Serving Prisoner Qualified Competent Parts Of Life Non Violent Violent Crimes

Author:Howard Dean

“Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action. Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday? Or to go on your last vacation? Or exercise this morning? Probably not, but you still did it. The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.”

Source: Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“War, and more wars, are helping Government to siphon the earnings of its people into its treasury for its own selfish purpose, which is to rule the people for the Government instead of for the purpose of serving the people. When will the people see that the very taxes they pay are building a power to be used against them?”

People War Helping Government Used Purpose Peace Pay Building Taxes Selfish Serving Earning Treasury

Author:Walter Russell

“I have learned that it is by serving that we learn how to serve. When we engaged in the service of our fellowmen, not only do our deeds assist them but we put our own problems in fresher perspective. When we concern ourselves more with others, there is less time to be concerned with ourselves”

Problem Perspective Concern Concerned Deeds Engaged Serving I Have Learned Selfless Service Acts Of Service

Book:The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“It is hard to feel bad about yourself when you are doing something good for someone else. There are a lot of ways to lift your self-esteem, but making a positive difference in another's life has got to be my best leadership guidance. Serving others and working to add value to them will lift your spirits in a way that nothing else will. Trust me on this one.”

“I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.”

Black Nice Green Tea Serving Green Tea

Author:Marianne Faithfull

“William Perkins said, “The end of a man’s calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.”

Men Said Ends Calling Seeking Riches Serving Serving God

Book:Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were

Source: Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were

“For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.”

Knows Seems Young Things To Do Serving

Author:Chelsea Clinton

“You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice”

Men Firsts Art Supreme Servant Serving Life Is Beautiful

Author:Roberto Benigni

“An industry devoted to serving the public's right to know gives twisted and evil men the means of becoming known. This problem is not obviously amenable to a solution, and it certainly is not amenable to a legal one. A regime of media regulation that would be both effective at preventing mass shootings and consistent with the American Constitution is no easier to imagine than a regime of gun regulation that would meet the same criteria.”

“It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.”

Self Hands Rich Generations Politician Convinced Circles Pockets Serving Get Rich Self Serving

Author:Paul Harvey

“If there is anything worth serving, it's this love. If there is anything worth being, it's this love. If there is anything worth talking about it's this love. If there is anything of real value it's this love.”

Ifs Real Values Talking Serving Real Value

Author:Kenny Johnson

“We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.”

Children School Cities Resources Minorities Serving Plague Disparity School System Inner City Inner City Schools

Author:Diane Watson

“Being 'poor in spirit' (a Christian virtue) means being detached from things - being able to possess goods without being possessed by them. It meansputting people ahead of possessions - and seeing material things only as instruments for serving God and the needs of others.”

People Needs Mean Able Christian Spirit Poor Virtue Seeing Materials Instruments Possession Goods Serving Possessed Serving God Detached Material Things Needs Of Others Poor In Spirit

Author:James Stenson

“We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object of our need for security.”

Needs Mean Persons Acting Security Objects Addiction Serving Really Mean Dependency Acting Out

Author:Stanton Peele

“The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.”

Natural Society Members Inevitable Serving Phenomenon Scarcity Natural Phenomena

Book:Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays

Source: Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays

“We live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton's Oval Office.”

Ifs Children Choices Culture Politics President Office Thirds Clinton Rational Serving Division Oval President Clinton Infantry Infantry Division

Author:Mark Steyn

“Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.”

Hours Waste Sentences Arguing Punishment Paradox Serving Delay Epigrams Precious Time

Author:Peter De Vries

“Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and intractability? That is subversive. And welcome.”

Sometimes Reader Window Welcome Pet Serving Throwing Prohibition Deck Subversive Clearing Peeves Pet Peeve

Author:Craig Lancaster

“If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?”

Ifs Knows Men Worry Know How Serving Confucianism

Author:Confucius

“Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.”

Ifs Way Feels Should Wells Feelings Lying Community Acting Selfish Best Way Behave Serving Truthful

Author:Elizabeth Goudge

“I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Self Bigs Form Sound Laughing Comedy Failing Hardest Serving Buttons Apologizing Self Serving I Apologize

Author:Steven Moffat

“But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.”

Thinking Self Expression Blind Curious Serving Tedious Expressive Self Serving

Author:Mark Strand

“I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.”

Matter Half Silence Subjects Horse Customers Bars Bored Serving Denied Subject Matter

Author:Bernadette Devlin

“As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had, the only thanks that I should desire are that you would always be ready to serve any other person that may need your assistance, and so let good offices go around, for humankind are all of a family. As for my own part, when I am employed in serving others I do not look upon myself as conferring favors but paying debts.”

“In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the people whose faces appeared in such publications as Town and Queen could afford to eat in restaurants serving food which would leave them looking and feeling better instead of worse.”

People Feelings Home Funny Faces Names Humorous England Towns Cooking Worthy London Queens Restaurants Fund Serving Feel Better Publication Home Cooking

Book:Always Unreliable: Memoirs

Source: Always Unreliable: Memoirs

“Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and drinking. The money we waste on these things can be used for so many useful things. With the money we smoke away, we can buy an artificial leg for one who has lost a leg, pay for an eye operation for someone with a cataract, or buy a wheelchair for a polio victim. Or, if nothing else, we can buy some spiritual books for the local library.”

“It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.”

Writing Firsts Stories Lines Backgrounds Plot Serving Storyline Plot Lines

Author:James N. Frey

“Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.”

Writing Firsts Has Beens Made Might Able School Purpose Order Found Education Capable Universal Population Enthusiasm Nonsense Collectives Serving Formal Education

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.”

Teaching Adventure Training Soldier Climbs Serving Officers Skis

Author:Ranulph Fiennes