Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet there was no bad feeling, no malice, no rancour, no littleness in his countenance, beautiful with a man's best beauty, even in its depression. When I placed his chair at the table, which I hastened to do, anticipating the servant, and when I handed him his tea, which I did with trembling care, he said: "Thank you, Lucy," in as kindly a tone of his full pleasant voice as ever my ear welcomed.
Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.
I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.
Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; [. . . ] magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.
Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.
After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M. D. 's and our hospital appointments.
The dark scary servant of all evil was on his way to rescue me. Somehow that thought failed to make me warm and fuzzy.
Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.
He who fears his servants is less than a servant.
The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant
The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.
Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have. In proportion as we are capacitated to receive, so it is our duty to do.
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God
Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.