Serving Quotes - Page 16

• There really is no cost, only the privilege of serving the King of Kings.

  Helen Roseveare

  Kings, Cost, Privilege

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• So make it your aim and lifelong habit, when you see someone who's serving, to be reminded of the sacrifice of the Savior, for apart from His sacrifice there is no serving.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Sacrifice, Habit, Lifelong

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.33, Multnomah

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• I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life, where there's been loss, where there's sadness of a deep kind. If poetry can help people to be more at ease in expressing even to themselves a lot of the darkness and pain of ordinary human existence, then it's serving some kind of cultural role, perhaps more than a cultural role, perhaps it is serving something of a spiritual role.

  Kevin Hart

  Spiritual, Pain, Sadness

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• THERE is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads to absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false, because it is of dangerous consequence. Such topics, therefore, ought entirely to be forborne; as serving nothing to the discovery of truth, but only to make the person of an antagonist odious.

  David Hume

  Philosophical, Discovery, Topics

  David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.79

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• The easiest and shortest way to God-realization is through the contact of a Sadguru, which means keeping the company or sahavas of such a Master, obeying him and serving him. This remedy is like a special express train which carries you straight to your destination.

  Meher Baba

  Mean, Special, Realization

  Meher Baba's message at Meherabad in Maharashtra, India, May 31, 1926.

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• [Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.

  Georges Bataille

  Wings, Causes, Abandoned

  Georges Bataille (2004). “On Nietzsche”, p.29, A&C Black

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• President Obama has reduced the sentences of 22 federal prisoners who were arrested for drug-related crimes - eight of whom were serving life sentences. It marks the first time someone has said 'Thanks Obama' but actually meant it.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Eight, Drug, President

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• I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one — the ambition of serving the great cause of truth, while endeavouring to forward the literature of the country.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Country, Believe, Ambition

  Edgar Allan Poe (1966). “The letters of Edgar Allan Poe”, Gordian Pr Inc

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• Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn't give it a second thought. We were involved in a terribly acrimonious breakup, with great enmity between us and a custody battle slowly gathering energy. The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn't even hire a lawyer to defend myself. It was my show business attorney who told me she was bringing the accusation to the police and I would need a criminal lawyer.

  Woody Allen

  Breakup, Children, Self

  "Woody Allen Speaks Out". www.nytimes.com. February 7, 2014.

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• Alas! how many souls there are full of self, and yet desirous of doing good and serving God, but in such a way as to suit themselves; who desire to impose rules upon God as to His manner of drawing them to Himself. They want to serve and possess Him, but they are not willing to be possessed by Him.

  Francois Fenelon

  Self, Drawing, Soul

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• The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.

  J. G. Ballard

  Self, Regimes, Paranoid

  "A User's Guide to the Millennium". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.

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• When poets - write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Thoughtful, Preparation

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• When you start just focusing exclusively on trying to tear the other person down instead of what you are going to do on behalf of the American people to deal with this economy, then that's not serving Democrats, that's not serving Republicans, that's not serving anybody.

  Barack Obama

  People, Tears, Trying

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• When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.

  Chip Conley

  Adversity, Opportunity, Leader

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. June 28, 2011.

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• A review of studies by physicians found that excessive exercise is bad for your heart. Another study says a daily serving of chocolate is actually good for your heart. That's got to make next year New Year's resolution easier to keep. "I'm going to exercise less. Eat a little more chocolate.

  Jay Leno

  New Year, Heart, Exercise

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• The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.

  Wendell Berry

  Art, Example, Lasts

  "Singing to Keep the Mind Awake: Interview with Wendell Berry". Interview with Birkin Gilmore, poems.com. 2007.

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• Everyone, including Hillary Clinton, knows Hillary is an unsavory and unethical scoundrel, an obvious and accomplished liar and, if America had a real Justice Department that actually cared about serving up equal justice under the law, she would be facing a number of felony charges.

  Ted Nugent

  Real, Liars, Law

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• I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.

  Neil Young

  Self, Media, People

  "Donald Trump Slams 'Total Hypocrite' Neil Young Over Music Snub" by Ed Mazza, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2015.

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• What's going on is that our most fundamental ideas about life are not serving us. They never have. But now, with our advances in communication and technology, the situation has become critical - for our mechanisms have outrun our mentality. And so we find ourselves trying to solve the dilemmas of tomorrow with the solutions of yesterday.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Communication, Technology, Ideas

  "A Revolution Is What's Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• If you want to serve the country, you recognize it's rough and tumble. And it's nothing like serving your country in the military.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Military, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.

  Park Dietz

  Thinking, Self, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist.

  Yukmouth

  Artist, Years, Careers

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• Donald Verrilli has argued 37 cases in five years on behalf of the [Barak] Obama administration. Many of them turned out to be truly landmark cases. He is the seventh-longest-serving solicitor general in American history.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Years, Administration, American History

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The California constitution provides that our judges are elected, not appointed. They are serving at the pleasure of the people and they are accountable to the people.

  Michele Landis Dauber

  California, People, Judging

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The thing that scares me most is the shift from serving the people to exercising power and with it, this attendant narcissism. Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention.

  Rosanne Cash

  Exercise, People, Scare

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 21, 2010.

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