Civil Servant Quotes

#1. As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.

Geoff Mulgan

#2. When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can you imagine, in the middle of the IRA bombing campaigns? I saw an ad inviting Irish applicants for an induction course, so I signed up.

Colm Toibin

#3. Things are always obvious after the fact. The civil servant was a very intelligent person, and this mistake is much more prevalent than one would think. It has to do with the way our mind handles historical information.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships.

Anthony Robbins

#5. You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

Doris Lessing

#6. Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.

Simon R. Green

#7. Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

Winston Churchill

#8. Harrison Ford invited me to fly on his private plane to Los Angeles, and he's great to work with. He's really down to earth, and we got to know each other quite well.

Nonso Anozie

#9. With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.

Otto Von Bismarck

#10. I'm a disgruntled ex-civil servant, and I'm armed. If you don't process my license right now I'm going to start making small, yet significant holes in people.

Howard Tayler

#11. It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant will step in - and then the Lord help you.

Ernest Rutherford

#12. NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not an underpaid civil servant; he's the ultimate extreme athlete. Red Bull knows how to make space hip.

Mary Roach

#13. I wanted to become a painter and no power in the world could force me to become a civil servant. The

Adolf Hitler

#14. I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to think that's the function I serve for others.

Ben Brantley

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

Sargent Shriver

#16. Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.

Theodore Roosevelt

#18. The only thing that's a challenge for me is not working. I get depressed when I'm not in motion.

Julie Klausner

#19. How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.

John Hurt

#20. A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

George S. Patton

#21. I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

Billy Joel

#22. My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues.

John Hume

#23. Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.

Douglas Brinkley

#24. Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

Chuck Palahniuk

#25. The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.

Wallace D. Wattles

#26. There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.

Chester A. Arthur

#27. The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

Indira Gandhi

#28. In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

Robert A. Heinlein

#29. A positive mental attitude is an irresistible force that knows no such thing as an immovable body.

Napoleon Hill

#30. My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

Naveen Jain

#31. Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.

Tom Holt

#32. My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.

Hanif Kureishi

#33. I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.

Wallace Shawn

#34. A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

Eugene Ionesco

#35. The Times, whose editorial portentousness approached traumatic constipation, tried to suppress its glee under the bushel basket of feigned sadness that another civil servant had been caught in a sexual misadventure; they hadn't even bothered to use the word "alleged.

John Sandford

#36. Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.

Madam C. J. Walker

#37. There is but one task for all
One life for each to give.
What stands if Freedom fall?
[For All We Have and Are]

Rudyard Kipling

#38. The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns 'to be with Him.'

Pope John Paul II

#39. With his pewter-colored locks and sturdy jaw, Graham Seymour was the archetypal British civil servant, a man who'd been born, bred, and educated to lead. He was handsome, but not too; he was tall, but not remarkably so. He made others feel inferior, especially Americans.

Daniel Silva