The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.
~By Ivan Pavlov ~
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
~By Og Mandino ~
We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.
~By Hassanal Bolkiah ~
You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.
~By M. Kathleen Casey ~
Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
~By David Zucker ~
I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.
~By Don Young ~
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
~By Sun Tzu ~
The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.
~By Peter Garrett ~
I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.
~By Jonathan Brandis ~
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
~By Saint Augustine ~
An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
~By John McCarthy ~
Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.
~By Rick Perry ~
I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.
~By Charles Rangel ~
I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
~By George Gissing ~
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
~By Aeschylus ~
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers.
~By Jim Costa ~
It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for?
~By Laura Miller ~
We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process.
~By Luis Gutierrez ~
The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two and three times before they won their seat.
~By Max Burns ~
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
~By Malcolm Fraser ~
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
~By Monica Edwards ~
To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.
~By John Gray ~
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
~By William Shatner ~
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
~By Seth Lloyd ~
We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. I have seen a statistic that more than 60,000 veterans today are waiting more than 6 months for an appointment at a VA hospital.
~By Russ Carnahan ~
I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.
~By Sting ~
Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
~By Barbara Castle ~
Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic Park extends beyond single properties or buildings.
~By Rick Renzi ~
This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.
~By Louis A. Johnson ~
First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.
~By Otto Hahn ~
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
~By Agatha Christie ~
Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.
~By Kristin Davis ~
It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.
~By Frank Luntz ~
I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.
~By Colin Baker ~
If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore?
~By Don Young ~
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever.
~By Scott McNealy ~
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
~By Saint Aurelius Augustine ~
I do not think this makes a lot of sense, and I think we should rely on the Park Service to implement the regulations that they have in place with the restrictions so that people can enjoy our parks.
~By Don Sherwood ~
The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand.
~By Paul Ryan ~
The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out.
~By Wally Schirra ~
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.
~By Earl of Chesterfield ~
My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.
~By Lukas Foss ~
I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
~By Dan Quayle ~
It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.
~By John Jay Hooker ~
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.
~By Hugh Miller ~
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
~By George Washington ~
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
~By Igor Stravinsky ~
The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
~By Bruno Bauer ~
The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?
~By Richard Land ~
For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
~By Terence ~
My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.
~By Guido van Rossum ~
Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
~By Owen Arthur ~
That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage.
~By Maureen Forrester ~
Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That's what life's all about.
~By Andrew Shue ~
I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.
~By Franz Liszt ~
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.
~By Maria Monk ~
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
~By Omar Sharif ~
Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.
~By Matthew Lawrence ~
Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.
~By Louis Leakey ~
No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.
~By Bob Riley ~
Ambient Devices is what I call part of the Third Wave of Internet devices.
~By David Rose ~
Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.
~By Thomas R. Marshall ~
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.
~By Alexander Fleming ~
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.
~By Harvey Korman ~
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
~By Barbara Cartland ~
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
~By Matthew Henry ~
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
~By William Lyon Phelps ~
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
~By William Lyon Phelps ~
Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.
~By John Hutton ~
As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~
I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars.
~By Martin Fleischmann ~
Though we may not necessarily forfeit our lives in service to our God, we can certainly demonstrate our love for Him by how well we serve Him.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
~By Josh Billings ~
This legislation gives parents some comfort that their children won't fall prey to child predators while using the Internet at schools and libraries that receive federal dollars for Internet services.
~By Judy Biggert ~
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
~By Lloyd Alexander ~
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