Subserved Quotes & Sayings

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. — Abraham Lincoln

Alas, madame!" exclaimed Athos, "to-day love is like war
the breastplate is becoming useless. — Alexandre Dumas

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. — John Adams

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star. — Bonnie Raitt

Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God. — Thomas The Apostle

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. — Thomas Wolfe

They studied Zoorlandian customs and laws. The region was rocky and windy, and the wind was recognized as a positive force since by championing equality in not tolerating towers and tall trees, it only subserved the public aspirations of atmospheric strata that kept diligent watch over the uniformity of the temperature. — Vladimir Nabokov

My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions, I do call us a rock'n'roll band. — David First

By 1998, members of the United States National Academy of Sciences, an elite elected group sponsored by the federal government, were approaching complete atheism. Only 10 percent testified to a belief in either God or immortality. Among them were a scant 2 percent of the biologists. In modern civilizations, there is no overwhelming importance in the general populace to belong to an organized religion. Witness, — Edward O. Wilson

There are still hundreds of question marks to be answered — Jimmy Armfield

There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.' — Alain De Botton

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters. — Robert Charles Wilson

Now ring that bloke of yours to tell him you're staying out all night, then have another drink. In fact, have six. It would please me no end to see you get hammered on Alicia's father's bill. And so I did. — Jojo Moyes

Without knowing how to calculate the odds on such matters, it seems improbably to me that God would have whispered the meaning of my life into the ear of some guru or authority. — Sam Keen

When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels. — Jean Dubuffet

I'm in East L.A., like Mount Washington, Highland Park. There's a little strip that they're gentrifying, trying to make a hip spot, but you go there, and it's just kind of barren. Nobody hangs out anywhere in L.A. There's no loitering in L.A., so I don't know what to do with myself. — King Tuff

Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs. — Walt Whitman