Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.
~By Robert Casey ~
Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible.
~By Chris Cannon ~
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 ~
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
~By John Churton Collins ~
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
~By Rick Moody ~
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
~By Horace ~
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
If someone wants to transmit a high-quality service with no interruptions and 'guaranteed this, guaranteed that,' they should be willing to pay for that.
~By Edward Whitacre, Jr. ~
People like me have to have the discipline only to work for clients, corporations, political people, products, services, networks that we believe in and we want to see succeed.
~By Frank Luntz ~
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
~By Henry Miller ~
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 ~
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
~By Henry Ford ~
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
~By Alex Noble ~
When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.
~By Jim Ryun ~
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.
~By Max Cleland ~
I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.
~By Peter Jennings ~
I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.
~By Lisa Whelchel ~
My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.
~By Walter Kohn ~
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.
~By Leo Burnett ~
They really do a disservice because these men and women came out of the Depression, they came out of the war.
~By Richard M. Daley ~
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 ~
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
~By Anna Howard Shaw ~
The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.
~By David Kay ~
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 ~
Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed.
~By Curtis Carlson ~
Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.
~By Bobby Sherman ~
If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.
~By Horatio Nelson ~
The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy.
~By Eliot Engel ~
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
~By Sallust ~
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 ~
What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.
~By Roy Haynes ~
I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine.
~By Max Burns ~
Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
~By Jack Davenport ~
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
~By Barbara Tuchman ~
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
~By Joseph Butler ~
For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.
~By Jane Byrne ~
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 ~
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
~By Benjamin Whorf ~
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
~By Eric Hobsbawm ~
Development in this county is always going to be an issue. Until development and zoning are handled on a regional basis, rather than each municipality left to its own devices, we will suffer from developers having the upper hand in suits and in front of zoning boards.
~By John Murray ~
Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.
~By Andres Serrano ~
Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.
~By John Woolman ~
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 ~
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.
~By Eric Braeden ~
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 ~
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
~By Antoine Rivarol ~
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
~By Timothy Leary ~
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
~By Winston Churchill ~
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
~By Dudley Moore ~
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
~By Francis of Assisi ~
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.
~By Georges Bizet ~
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
~By Kitty O'Neill Collins ~
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
~By Juvenal ~
Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in.
~By Markus Wolf ~
The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.
~By Tony Curtis ~
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
~By Finley Peter Dunne ~
We think the managed security services opportunity is enormous and so we have been an active participant and probably the largest firm in this space outside of an IBM or EDS, which does large outsourcing contracts.
~By John W. Thompson ~
If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.
~By Walid Jumblatt ~
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.
~By Dave Reichert ~
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.
~By Jerry Harrison ~
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
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 ~
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
~By John Burroughs ~
We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.
~By Bernard Ebbers ~
Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?
~By John Hutton ~
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 ~
My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do.
~By Estelle Morris ~
Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.
~By Emma Thompson ~
There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
~By Elliot Richardson ~
We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
~By Betty Dodson ~
The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend.
~By John Hutton ~
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 ~
The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a product and service is a designer's most valuable asset.
~By Primo Angeli ~
My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.
~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.
~By Philip Levine ~
Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.
~By William Joyce ~
As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today.
~By Paul Hoffman ~
Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.
~By Larry Elder ~
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 ~
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.
~By Robert Menendez ~
At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.
~By Roger Staubach ~
Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.
~By Susan George ~
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