Quotes On Time Servers

#1. No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

John Dryden

#2. We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.

Mark Thomas

#3. Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created."
We effectively became "time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers" with the invention of the clock.

Lewis Mumford

#4. I write constantly about everything.

Tom Sturridge

#5. When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.

Peter Lynch

#6. There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

Moliere

#7. The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

Auguste Comte

#8. Love finds lazy writers
And makes example out of them
Nailing them in history

Yarro Rai

#9. There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

Ray Bradbury

#10. Who knows if there are ghosts (sorry, Grandma) or just the living, breathing memories of your loved ones, inside you, speaking to you, trying to get your attention by any means necessary?

Jandy Nelson

#11. I feel alive when you kiss me.

Missy Lyons

#12. The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind

William James

#13. We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. [Ed Murrow] admitted he was having trouble coming to grips with the idea of peace: "Trying to realize what has happened, one's mind takes refuge in the past. The war that was seems more real than the peace that has come.

Lynne Olson