Serving Quotes - Page 38

• Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

  Dean Heller

  United States, Privilege, Senate

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• In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Thinking, White, Southern

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• The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mean, Men, Church

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• Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton

  Veronica Roth

  Self, Self Serving

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• The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

  Brent Weeks

  People, Choices, Enough

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• People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

  Marisha Pessl

  Self, People, Behavior

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• Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

  Saint Augustine

  Wise, Love Is, Justice

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• Perhaps if only once you did enjoy
  The thousandth part of all the happiness
  A heart beloved enjoys, returning love,
  Repentant, you would surely sighing say,
  “All time is truly lost and gone
  Which is not spent in serving love.”

  Torquato Tasso

  Heart, Gone, Beloved

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• ... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.

  Albert Einstein

  Educational, Hands, Order

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.

  Peter Guber

  Brother, School, Marine

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• We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

  Douglas Horton

  Behavior, Pardon Me, Sentences

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• Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.

  Jane D. Hull

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Daughter

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• David Petraeus, the best known American general of his generation. After commanding the American war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he was serving as CIA director when he stepped down suddenly following revelations that he`d had an extramarital affair. That same investigation that turned up evidence of the affair also eventually turned up evidence that General.
  Petraeus had passed classified information to his mistress.

  Rachel Maddow

  War, Iraq, Effort

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• Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

  Edmund Burke

  Sacrifice, Government, Political

  Speech to electors of Bristol, 3 Nov. 1774

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• We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.

  Bernie Sanders

  Army, Community, Police

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Unfortunately, we are very poor with PR skills but in serving people- we are superhero.

  Ghulam Nabi Azad

  Skills, People, Superhero

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• I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Artist, Fiction, Agents

  Source: www.terrain.org

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• In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our companions will be given to us by grace. Often they will be persons who will upset our settled view of self and world. In fact, we might define true community as the place where the person you least want to live with always lives

  Parker J. Palmer

  Self, Views, Choices

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• New Rule: Food companies must face the facts: One container equals one serving. Look, we’re Americans, and that means once we open the bag, there’s no stopping us until we’re licking stray bits of powdered cheese off the carpet. So stop trying to give us nutritional information based on a fraction of the package. It assumes a talent for two things that we’re really not capable of: restraint and math.

  Bill Maher

  Mean, Math, Two

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.196, Penguin

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• We would never throw up our hands and say to those white boys - well, too bad, if you had just stayed away from marijuana or not dealt dope to your friends when you were 18 you wouldn't be serving a life sentence in prison right now. You wouldn't be locked out of jobs, unable to even get work at McDonalds. No, instead we'd say, "What's wrong with us as a nation that we would condemn so many of our young men to a life of poverty, exclusion, and scorn simply because they made a few mistakes in their youth?".

  Michelle Alexander

  Jobs, Mistake, Boys

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I am a handmaiden of Death. I walk in His dark shadow and do His bidding. Serving Him is my only purpose in this life.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Dark, Shadow, Bidding

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• There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  War, Sacrifice, Men

  Charles Eliot Norton (1913). “Letters of Charles Eliot Norton”

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• When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Community, Judgment, Accepting

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• She’s my mate; that makes her mine. Forgetting that will see your neck no longer serving its purpose.” “I love it when you talk dirty,” she purred. “Give my regards to Lindsay.

  Sylvia Day

  Dirty, Giving, Purpose

  Sylvia Day (2012). “A Hunger So Wild: A Renegade Angels Novel”, p.41, Penguin

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• Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.

  James C. Collins

  Smart, Self, People

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