Servant Quotes - Page 15

• You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Fire, Flames

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Wise, Believe, Successful

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• Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!" "That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Women, House

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.67, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Eye, Water, Naked

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• A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift. ....The Lord has declared that those who serve him and keep his commandments are called his servants. After they have been tested and tried and are found faithful and true in all things, they are called no longer servants, but friends. His friends are the ones he will take into his kingdom and with whom he will associate in an eternal inheritance.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Lds, Faithful, Inheritance

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• Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.

  Robert B. Parker

  Reading, Army, Stuff

  Robert B. Parker (2009). “Mortal Stakes”, p.167, Dell

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• You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

  Agatha Christie

  Imagination, Too Much, Elegance

  Agatha Christie (2009). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.130, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Sacrifice, Wish

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.52, Penguin

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• My friends call me by my name." "You don't have any friends." "I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong.

  Shannon Hale

  Names, Want, Treats

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.65, A&C Black

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• I knew I would be in the story somewhere," Eugenides interjected. "Oh no," said Phresine, "This was a humble servant." "Ouch." "Though very courageous." "Not me," whispered Eugenides to his pillow.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Humble, Would Be, Stories

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• A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, 4th Of July, Lord

  Martin Luther (2011). “Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing”, p.53, Anchor

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• Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is murder

  Leonard Cohen

  Heaven, Devil, Riding

  Song: The Future, Album: The Future, 1992

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• Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.

  Francine Rivers

  Christian, Trying, Pushing

  Francine Rivers (2012). “The Atonement Child”, p.84, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.

  Rumi

  Dust, Long, Path

  "Rumi and Self-Discovery" by Ibrahim Gamard, Islamica Magazine Issue 15, Summer 2005.

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• Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot water," the magus said as he settled into the bath the servants had filled for him.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Thinking, Water, Silence

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• Who hit you?" "Why, so you can go beat him up?" "One of the fringe benefits of being my human servant is my protection." "I don't need your protection, Jean-Claude." "He hurt you." "And I shoved a gun into his groin and made him tell me everything he knew," I said.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Hurt, Gun, Needs

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• I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.

  Jane Austen

  Mean, Doubt, Together

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.185, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.

  Jules Verne

  Mind, Earth, Masters

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• In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: the status of a person's job was more likely to predict their likelihood of a heart attack than obesity, smoking or high blood pressure.

  Matt Ridley

  Jobs, Heart, Blood

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• Amelie said, “I won’t be your servant in Morganville. Nor should you be mine. Equals.” She offered her hand to him, and he looked down at it, clearly taken aback. But he took it. “Now defend what is ours, my partner.” He grinned … grinned! … and whirled to meet Myrnin in midleap as Myrnin attacked.

  Rachel Caine

  Taken, Hands, Amelie

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires”, p.254, Penguin

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• Oh, get out of the way, Percy,” said Fred. “Harry’s in a hurry.” “Yeah, he’s off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged servant,” said George, chortling.

  J. K. Rowling

  Secret, Tea, Way

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

  Cassandra Clare

  Character, Men, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. More than anything else, this new century demands new thinking: We must change our materially based analyses of the world around us to include broader, more multidimensional perspectives.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Faithful Servants, Perspective

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• One of the servants had reported that Daisy had been sneaking around the house at night, deliberately tripping all the traps to keep the mice from being killed. “Is this true, daughter?” Thomas Bowman had rumbled, his gaze filled with ire as he stared at Daisy. “It could be,” she had allowed. “But there is another explanation.” “And what is that?” Bowman had asked sourly. Her tone turned congratulatory. “I think we are hosting the most intelligent mice in New York!

  Lisa Kleypas

  Daughter, New York, Intelligent

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• Archer, is there a servant girl in my fortress you haven't taken to bed? I announce you're leaving and within minutes two of them are at each other's throats, and another is crying her eyes out in the scullery. Honestly. You've been here all of nine days." - Roen, "Fire

  Kristin Cashore

  Girl, Archer, Taken

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.73, Penguin

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