Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
~By Josh Billings ~
In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.
~By Jim Costa ~
All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.
~By Charlie Trotter ~
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
~By Horace Mann ~
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
~By Casey Stengel ~
I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.
~By Zach Wamp ~
Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.
~By Donald Norman ~
I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.
~By Dennis Cardoza ~
Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
~By William Blake ~
You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.
~By Dylan Moran ~
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
~By John Adams ~
I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
~By Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ~
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
~By Ali ibn Abi Talib ~
You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country.
~By Alan K. Simpson ~
The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.
~By Daniel H. Hill ~
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
~By Tacitus ~
For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
~By Terence ~
What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
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 responded to the request because during these times when we are asking so much of our men and women in the armed services it is especially important that we properly honor those who died in the service of their country.
~By Robert A. Brady ~
All of the devices work out of the box without any subscription fee.
~By David Rose ~
I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.
~By Bram Cohen ~
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
~By Bill Vaughan ~
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
~By James MacGregor Burns ~
Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
~By Ayn Rand ~
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.
~By Timothy Murphy ~
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
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 ~
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
~By W. Edwards Deming ~
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
~By Herodotus ~
The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.
~By Evan G. Galbraith ~
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
~By Alan Perlis ~
Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
~By Mary Astell ~
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
~By Jack Davenport ~
Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
~By Zac Efron ~
I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.
~By Kenny Guinn ~
There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.
~By Joe Mantegna ~
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
~By Henry Ford ~
As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.
~By Bobby Sherman ~
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
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 ~
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.
~By David F. Houston ~
The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.
~By Gavyn Davies ~
We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.
~By Chico Hamilton ~
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
~By Tallulah Bankhead ~
My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.
~By Michelle Shocked ~
It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.
~By Karl Landsteiner ~
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
~By Kitty O'Neill Collins ~
Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to Conference, where we can resolve any outstanding issues and make this postal reform reality - for the Postal Service and for all Americans.
~By John McHugh ~
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.
~By Imran Khan ~
The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in.
~By Cilla Black ~
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"
~By Will Rogers ~
I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.
~By Steven Hatfill ~
It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
~By Anne Sullivan ~
That's a very critical phase in customer service because you can start to really understand what part of customer service has value to customers and what part is bothering customers.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.
~By Dee Hock ~
Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.
~By Gustav Krupp ~
If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.
~By Neal Boortz ~
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the network, the device, and the application that is riding on the server.
~By John W. Thompson ~
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
~By Peter Drucker ~
My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.
~By Honor Blackman ~
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
~By Samuel Butler ~
I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.
~By Oliver North ~
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.
~By Harvey Korman ~
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
~By Joseph Addison ~
I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.
~By Karen Duffy ~
Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.
~By Robert B. Parker ~
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
~By Philip Massinger ~
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.
~By Tim Berners Lee ~
I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved.
~By Bernice Johnson Reagon ~
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
~By Henry Ford ~
I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.
~By Lucille Roybal Allard ~
In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.
~By George Grosz ~
I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am.
~By Tom Hopkins ~
I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.
~By John McGahern ~
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
~By Henri Nouwen ~
As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.
~By Barack Obama ~
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
~By Aeschylus ~
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
~By Leslie Stephen ~
A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.
~By James Franco ~
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
~By Algernon Sidney ~
A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.
~By Michael Scheuer ~
It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.
~By Phaedrus ~
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
~By Ben Jonson ~
My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.
~By Gregory Corso ~
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