#serving

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. ↗

— Graham Greene

#being #boring #even #every #everything

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth. ↗

— Lady Gregory

#deserving #his #minute #punishment #saying

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people. ↗

— Arlo Guthrie

#also #another #challenge #challenges #eagerly

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#deserving #distinction #everybody #honor #i

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it. ↗

— Kohta Hirano

#god-s-will #personification #philosophy #regret #religion

Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury. ↗

— Florence E. Allen

#called #fact #groups #had #here

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#decay #life #pickle #preserving #spiritual

America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#action #against #america #appropriate #blue

Things change when you give your life to serving God, and that can be scary. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#give #god #life #scary #serving

I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#best #chief #close #editor #getting