Servant 2019 Quotes & Sayings

All his elaborated arguments and beautiful sentences turned, under the influence of alcohol, into dust and slipped between his nicotine-stained fingers. — Ole H.

Most of the ideas I've gotten for novels or screenplays have occurred to me while I was either shaving or taking a bath. A number have occurred to me while I was driving 127. I rarely get ideas when seated in front of my typewriter, which I find ironic because I have always suspected that typing somehow plays a key role in writing. — Gary Reilly

Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by. — Euripides

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us. — Abraham Lincoln

Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil. — Ambrose Bierce

Bertha divined what an enormous wrong had been wrought against the world in that the longing for pleasure is placed in woman just as in man; and that with women that longing is a sin, demanding expiation, if the yearning for pleasure is not at the same time a yearning for motherhood. — Arthur Schnitzler

Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone. — Pam Allyn

I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance. — Tariq Ramadan

The ocean swells around us. Sometimes, we are in a bowl of water and sometimes on the top of the lip. The horizon curves.
We are sitting on top of the world.
In theory, anyone is on the top of their world at every moment, given that the Earth is truly round. But, it's hard to see that in a subway under New York City and completely obvious out here. — Lexis De Rothschild

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness. — Alexander Volkov

I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness. — Gary Hume

All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance. — Henry David Thoreau

Just because you don't know what you want yet, it doesn't mean that there's nothing to want. — Emily Henry