#servants

The Empire does not require that its servants love each other, merely that they perform their duty. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#servants #love

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#child #does #doing #else #every

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#corruption #culture #education #harmony #humor

Civil servants take forever to do anything. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#civil #civil servants #forever #servants #take

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants. ↗

— Loretta Young

#hands #servants #thoughts #voice #your

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#men #person #purpose #servants #things

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#corn #courts #expenses #issues #kitchen

Good servants frequently make good masters. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#good #make #masters #servants

When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#colour #connecticut #during #good #i

When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor. ↗

— Cedric Hardwicke

#audience #dramatist #fine #not talking #reveals