Serving Quotes - Page 14

• The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Ungrateful, Taste, Degrees

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• China's diplomacy has made bold headway, serving domestic development and contributing to world peace and common development,.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Development, World, Common

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• Try not to be too angry or disappointed with your fellow Americans. Most of them don't care about politics as much as the majority of my readers, and the education they have received about it from the government's public school system is nothing more than a septic tank full of warmed-over self-serving statist lies and leftist propaganda.

  L. Neil Smith

  Lying, School, Government

  "Only Nixon". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. November 09, 2008.

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• There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Community, Way, Facts

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• If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

  Confucius

  Men, Parent, Mind

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.7, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Japan, Average

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.126, Vintage

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• Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Learning, Men, Age

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• self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Sacrifice, Self, Deception

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2009). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, p.98, Hachette UK

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• The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.

  Bella Abzug

  Believe, Careers, Government

  Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

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• For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

  Edmund Burke

  Teaching, Barren, Investigation

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.3

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• My political enemies I can freely forgive; but as for who abused me when I was serving my country in the field, and those who attacked me for serving my country -- Doctor, that is a different case.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Doctors, Political

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• It is for women to come forward and choose the path of sacrifice for serving the nation.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Path, Nations

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• I think those who choose to find joy in serving others, those who choose to find their voice, to pursue their vocation and to act on their vision oftentimes have to sacrifice much.It's almost like a crucifixion in terms of the cross you have to bear.

  Cornel West

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All my serving utensils are measured. It's not obvious, because they're really beautiful, but I have the option of tracking what I'm eating. That helps me be smart about it.

  Ali Vincent

  Beautiful, Smart, Utensils

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• We are not denying that Turkey has a right to defend itself from extremists but some of its actions are not serving any democratic purpose in Turkey or in Iraq. This will not benefit the relations between the two countries.

  Jalal Talabani

  Country, Turkeys, Two

  "Turkey Targets Northern Iraq Again". www.aljazeera.com. April 22, 2008.

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• But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Character, Unnecessary, Force

  John Desmond Bernal (1952). “Marx and science”

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• A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited to affectations as to the affections. The letter is, by its natural shape, self-justifying; it is one's own evidence, deposition, a self-serving testimony. In a letter the writer holds all the cards, controls everything about himself and about those assertions he wishes to make concerning events or the worth of others. For completely self-centered characters, the letter form is a complex and rewarding activity.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Character, Self, Wish

  Elizabeth Hardwick (2011). “Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature”, p.195, New York Review of Books

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• My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.

  Steve Tisch

  Father, Guy, Dinner

  "Super Bowl Q&A with … Steve Tisch". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. February 5, 2012.

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• It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good. The Lord has said, 'He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.' (Matt. 10:39.) We lose our life by serving and lifting others. By so doing we experience the only true and lasting happiness. Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made.

  Marion G. Romney

  Lasting Happiness, Earth, Kingdoms

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• Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

  Dorothy Norman

  Dream, Artist, Self

  Dorothy Norman (1969). “The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol”, Anchor Books

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• By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.

  Abe Ajay

  Fashion, Lonely, Art

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• It is much easier to organize control over one industry serving many markets than over one market served by the products of several industries.

  Joan Robinson

  Easier, Organize, Products

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.167, Academic Press

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• Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Self, Law, People

  Eiji Yoshikawa (2000). “Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan”, p.359, Kodansha International

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• The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.

  Fred Rodell

  Law, Squad, Lines

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• The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound, more humbling, more exalted emotions than any thing else in the world can do. The spirit of man is an instrument which cannot give out its deepest, finest tones, except under the immediate hand of the Divine Harmonist.

  John Campbell Shairp

  Men, Hands, Giving

  John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.91

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