Flunkeyism Quotes & Sayings

While one was an undergraduate, one could feel virtuous and indignant at the vices of Oxford, at least at those which one did not indulge in, particularly at the flunkeyism and money-worship which are our most prevalent and disgraceful sins. But when one is a fellow it is quite another affair. They become a sore burthen then, enough to break one's heart. — Thomas Hughes

I knew it was easier to drill things in than to take them out.'
'It's like a screw!' Craig-Vyvyan shouted.... 'If you pull off it's head, you never get it out. — Mark Helprin

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute. — Howard Hodgkin

Save the people you love, who cares about the rest of the world? - Uncle Jake — Michael Buckley

I've been to location shoots in Mexico before, and everyone ends up getting sick. — Ann Rutherford

I don't want to be just one thing. I want to be brave and selfless and intelligent and honest and kind. — Veronica Roth

To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story. — Gary Wolf

We must worship God before we can reverence parents or women, or root out flunkeyism and money-worship. — Thomas Hughes

The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure. — Abraham Lincoln

I've always referred to my father as 'my coach' because we were always able to separate our relationship into the roles of coach and parent. — Sebastian Coe

Determine what your top priorities in life are and keep aside sufficient time for them in your schedule. — Amey Hegde

To be a mentor you need to understand what's going on in a young person's life and you just want to have an internal dialogue that says, 'How can I help? Because I really care.' — Deepak Chopra

An ideal marriage is a true partnership between two imperfect people, each striving to complement the other, to keep the commandments, and to do the will of the Lord ["Our Sacred Duty to Honor Woman," Ensign, May 1999). — Russel M. Nelson

What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard. But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us. — Marianne Williamson

They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money. — Al Capone

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John. — C.S. Lewis