A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.
Well met, Mistress Lirael. This ragamuffin, as your servant so aptly described him, is His Highness Prince Sameth, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Hence the bells. But on to more serious matters. Could you please rescue us? Prince Sameth's personal vessel is not quite what I'm used to, and he is eager to catch me a fish before my morning nap.
Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant. " You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant. " He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be? Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand. " Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.
A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.
I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.
In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.
The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice
Civil servants take forever to do anything.
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.
Amelie said, “I won’t be your servant in Morganville. Nor should you be mine. Equals. ” She offered her hand to him, and he looked down at it, clearly taken aback. But he took it. “Now defend what is ours, my partner. ” He grinned … grinned! … and whirled to meet Myrnin in midleap as Myrnin attacked.
A true servant of Mary cannot be lost.
The slothful is the servant of the counters.
We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.
None of us are God - just His servants.
Virtue is the master of talent, talent is the servant of virtue. Talent without virtue is like a house where there is no master and their servant manages its affairs. How can there be no mischief?
It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.
The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves.