Serviam Quotes

#1. The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!

James Joyce

#2. Church wants you on your place. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand. If you go for that sort of thing, I don't know what to do for you. A man makes his own way. No one gives it to you. You have to take it. 'Non serviam'.

Frank Costello

#3. Sink me, nobody of this tub agrees with anybody else about anything, except maybe what the fellow with the horns told the old man in the clouds: Non serviam.

Robert Shea

#4. Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

James Joyce

#5. Lucifer's last words in heaven may have been "Non serviam," but none has served the Almighty so dutifully, since His sideshow in the clouds would never draw any customers if it were not for the main attraction of the devil's hell on earth.

Thomas Ligotti

#6. The Dutch were among the earliest adopters of a new technology - the printed book - and

Russell Shorto

#7. The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.

Colin Wilson

#8. Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#9. She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.

Ellen Burstyn

#10. Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.

Pete Sampras

#11. Best not to ask "What is it?" until you finish rolling in it.

Francesco Marciuliano

#12. Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily.

Dionne Warwick

#13. Gets up and testifies every night, and cheats the very

L.M. Montgomery

#14. God chose the people of Israel to manifest Himself strong through signs and wonders but to also initiate the Temple

Paul Gitwaza

#15. People ask me how am I doing in life instead of how hurt am I by the life.

Nadair Desmar

#16. Were you hoping for a quest? A seemingly impossible task that you could relay to your queen afterward? Would you like to tell her that you found and slayed the dragon for love of her?
-Queen Sorcha

Melissa Marr