Servants Quotes

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We can raise the consciousness of the people and really make a difference over the next 40 days. I know a fast is a private discipline between the believer and God, or it can be done for health reasons. This is not the fast that we choose. We choose to feed the hungry. This is not a private fast this is a corporate call to action designed to get attention. Attention for those who are forgotten after the holidays, those thousands we see year-round at our offices for rent assistance food and clothing, those we feed weekly at outdoor camps and indoor ghettos right here in Atlanta, and those around the State that we serve through partnerships with other organizations meeting the needs with our help. What better time than during one of the holiest times of the year for humble servants to do their reasonable service. The prophetic, our ability to speak truth to power, to know the times and see Gods hand in the earth; will only come from our prayer life. So we are asking Atlanta to pray for us as they help us serve God`s people. The prophetic life is a product of prayer, and when we see the people on Easter the whole dinner is one great prayer Oh Lord bring us together to know the true value of life the human soul.

- Elizabeth Omilami

(quote by Rachel Roberts, Harrison`s fourth wife): Rex cannot be pleased. Servants have got slapped with his tongue or hand. Eventually his servants and wives leave him. Rex is one of those who thinks living well is the best revenge. It may be, but the revenge is taken out on his nearest and dearest.

- Rex Harrison

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

- James Cameron

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

- Loretta Young

(Asiana magazine, August 2004) The star system in India takes some getting used to. The divide between rich and poor is huge as it is, but if you`re a film star, you`re placed way up there and everyone around expects you to behave like you`re a superior being or something. There are people hanging around all day waiting to bring you a glass of water or carry something for you, anything to show you they`re not worthy. It`s crazy. For the British Asian stars among the cast, who grew up minus servants and peons waiting on them hand on foot, or feeling any particular need to act the star when off camera, all this seemed a bit much. For a while, they decided to put it down to different strokes. Until (Indira and co-star and "soulmate" Nitin Ganatra) decided, "Sod this. Let`s take the piss."

- Indira Varma

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

- Rick Warren

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they`re riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

- Anthony Holden

God`s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

- Billy Graham

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

- Donald Rumsfeld

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

- François Truffaut

Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.

- Mike Leigh

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

- Franz Liszt

Government spending in the year to September increased by a thousand percent. When you spend a thousand percent, you will likely get the same amount in inflation. The real economy in this country shrunk even by the government`s own admission by 45 percent in the last five years. That means, government should have shrunk by 45 percent. Government has not shrunk by 45 percent. The formal economy is producing much less tax revenue, in order for it to pay its civil servants. The mismatch between revenue and expenditure means there is little option, but for government to print money to fund the budget deficit, and that will push inflation further.

- John Richards

We must be willing to change the way we do business if we hope to live up to the responsibilities that go along with being public servants.

- Roy Barnes

The contract system at Hollywood studios like MGM was a very efficient system in that because we were at the studio all the time we could rehearse a lot. But it also really repressed people. There were no union regulations yet, and we were all indentured servants - you can call us slaves if you want - like ballplayers before free agency. We had seven-year contracts, but every six months the studio could decide to fire you if your picture wasn`t a hit. And if you turned down a role, they cut off your salary and simply added the time to your contract.

- Gene Kelly

Law enforcement officers are never `off duty.` They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

- Barbara Boxer

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

- Karel Capek

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.

- Jonathan Carroll

I encouraged the people in the Department of Justice to be their best. They are really wonderfully dedicated public servants. They care.

- Janet Reno

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

- Joseph Wambaugh

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

- Adam Moore

If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

- Ahmad Wesley

We call ourselves public servants but I`ll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

- Al Hutchinson

All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

- Al Kersha

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

- Alan Oatsvall

We should always look upon ourselves as God`s servants, placed in God`s world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

- Alan Rodger

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

- Alex Pollak

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

- Alex Zisson

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

- Alexander Eliot

There`s nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

- Ali Moshiri

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

- Allan Mayer

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

- Alvina Tan

My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.

- Aly Byorick

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

- Aly Byorick

Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

- Ambrosia Anderson

This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

- Amitai Sandy

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.

- Andre Bishop

Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty`s servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?

- Andre Bishop

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

- Andrea Vinyard

It`s to help them be better men, ... To be stronger in their beliefs and to be servants to their families and their communities.

- Andy Parker

So, I think that says a lot about the largeness of spirit of a John M. Dalton, ... The largeness of spirit that Missourians always want to look for in our public servants and in our leaders. It is therefore a great honor for me to join you today to salute this great man and to congratulate the Dalton family.

- Ann Boeckman

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

- Anne Hedges

truly two extraordinary public servants.

- Anne Tapp

I think the saddest part of all of this is there is not one mention of any type of accountability from their political masters, ... They are in this mode of blaming it on the civil servants.

- Anwar Phillips

Do not employ handsome servants.

- Andy Dingley