The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.
~By Paul Getty ~
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
~By Marcel Proust ~
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.
~By Earl of Chesterfield ~
I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.
~By Warren Beatty ~
In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
~By Gary Miller ~
I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.
~By James Lafferty ~
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
~By John Jewel ~
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
~By Ben Jonson ~
We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.
~By Alexis Herman ~
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
~By Noah Webster ~
I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.
~By John Monash ~
I tell people, Don't take my advice. What do I know?
~By Nick Lachey ~
During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
~By Gerard Manley Hopkins ~
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 ~
I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.
~By Gregory Corso ~
Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.
~By Harvey Korman ~
We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.
~By Tony Curtis ~
For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
~By Karen Hughes ~
Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.
~By Charles W. Pickering ~
I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.
~By Larry King ~
When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
~By Adele Faber ~
When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was "Everybody Loves a Winner."
~By William Bell ~
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
~By King Edward VIII ~
We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is.
~By Warren Rudman ~
While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.
~By Martin Sheen ~
I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.
~By Boris Becker ~
I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options.
~By Tim Ryan ~
When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!
~By Mariska Hargitay ~
In the Armed Services Committee, we endeavored to put forth proposals that would help alleviate some of that stress, both for the troops and for their families.
~By John M. McHugh ~
There's always something special when the service academies play each other that's not in any other game. This is not a regular game, and everyone involved knows that.
~By Roger Staubach ~
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
~By Galileo Galilei ~
I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
~By Alexander Haig ~
In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
~By Barbara Castle ~
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
~By Bernard de Mandeville ~
Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you.
~By Arthur Levitt ~
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
~By Barry Williams ~
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms.
~By Usher Raymond ~
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.
~By Phaedrus ~
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
~By Arthur Helps ~
The worst men often give the best advice.
~By Francis Bacon ~
It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
~By Warren E. Burger ~
Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
~By Uri Geller ~
Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
~By Muhammad Ali ~
Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.
~By Peter Lewis Allen ~
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
~By Moliere ~
The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.
~By Joe Morton ~
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.
~By Van Jones ~
It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services available that will lower the costs of their prescription drugs and strengthen the overall integrity of the Medicare entitlement.
~By Olympia Snowe ~
Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
~By Thomas More ~
I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.
~By Teri Garr ~
Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
~By Rahm Emanuel ~
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
~By Bill Vaughan ~
You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.
~By M. Kathleen Casey ~
All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.
~By Richard Gere ~
For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
~By Elizabeth II ~
Few service industries are designed to be 24x7 in India, and thus there was no 24x7 mentality.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
~By Joan Rivers ~
I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.
~By Peter DeFazio ~
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.
~By Mark Udall ~
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110% and don't give up!
~By Vanessa Hudgens ~
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
~By Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations.
~By Lucille Roybal Allard ~
Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster.
~By Otto Schily ~
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
~By Bruno Bettelheim ~
Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.
~By John Woolman ~
Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.
~By Dave Matthews ~
People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.
~By Susan Estrich ~
I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am.
~By Tom Hopkins ~
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
~By John F. Kerry ~
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 ~
I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
~By Charles Francis Richter ~
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 ~
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