#servant

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. ↗

— P. T. Barnum

#fire #life #master #money #respects

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master. ↗

— Plato

#master #servant #who #will

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#dear #fitzgerald #god #john #kennedy

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#american people #paid #people #public #public servants

It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#civil servant #most #rewarding #servant #thing

As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#became #become #civil #civil servants #class

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius. ↗

— Marston Morse

#genius #madness #mathematics #same #servant

Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours." Ranette: "Your mansion isn't safe?" Wax: "My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my study" Ranette: "Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#humor #safety #screening #servants #humor

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#civil #civil servants #crisis #decades #develop

Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#administration #agencies #assist #bureaucracy #civil