Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.
~By Beverley Mitchell ~
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
~By Eden Phillpotts ~
Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.
~By Julian Bond ~
We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
~By Titus Livius ~
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 ~
Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
~By Hall Caine ~
Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system.
~By Corrine Brown ~
I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.
~By Diahann Carroll ~
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 ~
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
~By Tabitha Soren ~
In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.
~By Adelbert von Chamisso ~
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.
~By Richard J. Needham ~
You don't need to be for or against the war to provide morale and support to the men and women who are fighting over seas. These are human beings who are doing a service.
~By Mike Thompson ~
My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.
~By John W. Vessey, Jr. ~
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Most every dental school has discount dental services.
~By Matthew Lesko ~
We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.
~By Antony Jay ~
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
~By John Churton Collins ~
No vice is so bad as advice.
~By Marie Dressler ~
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
Pager companies are very much looking to provide new services to help them regain some of their customer base.
~By David Rose ~
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 ~
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
~By Carl Clinton Van Doren ~
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
~By Warren Christopher ~
I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
~By Herbert Samuel ~
Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats.
~By Richard J. Daley ~
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
~By Plato ~
And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.
~By Robert McChesney ~
Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.
~By Louise Slaughter ~
Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
~By Mark Warner ~
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. ~
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved.
~By Bernice Johnson Reagon ~
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
The government serves the people - not vice-versa.
~By Joe Wilson ~
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
For the most part this is a place to find down-to-earth advice on everyday cooking, eating, food shopping, cooking equipment, and nice things to put on your table.
~By Arthur Schwartz ~
Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities.
~By Mike Davidson ~
The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.
~By Bill Frist ~
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 ~
There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that.
~By Frank Luntz ~
I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.
~By Oded Fehr ~
So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.
~By Clare Short ~
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.
~By James Callaghan ~
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
~By Lucretia Mott ~
Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.
~By Jerry Pournelle ~
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.
~By Christine Todd Whitman ~
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
~By Augustus Hare ~
I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and should insurrection break out the protection of life and property would be more safe guarded by our company of regulars, than by the whole City.
~By Thomas L. Smith ~
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
~By Josh Billings ~
Literally every department of state government has gone through, or is in a period of, chaos. Not just fiscal chaos, but certainly as we saw in the Department of Children and Family Services and State Fair Agency and many of Walker's departments, there is absolute chaos.
~By Bill Scott ~
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
~By Isaac Newton ~
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
~By James Harrington ~
Many people still regard many users of public services as undeserving.
~By Elaine MacDonald ~
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 ~
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
~By Aesop ~
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 ~
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
~By Anna Julia Cooper ~
Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
~By Zac Efron ~
A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising.
~By James Collins ~
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
~By Jim Rohn ~
Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!
~By William Arthur Ward ~
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 ~
Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
~By Sally Quinn ~
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn't know anything and isn't ready to be vice president. That's fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.
~By Clare Short ~
America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.
~By John Olver ~
After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.
~By Catherine Zeta-Jones ~
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff.
~By Rick Renzi ~
The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.
~By Howard Coble ~
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 ~
I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.
~By Gerry Mulligan ~
Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages?
~By Danny Glover ~
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
~By Anne Frank ~
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 ~
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 ~
You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.
~By Michel Patini ~
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
~By E. T. Bell ~
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