#serving

The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#again #beginning #came #career #class

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#apologize #because #big #button #comedy

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect. ↗

— James Payn

#enough #fact #having #him #his

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others. ↗

— Henry Drummond

#giving #happiness #others #serving #serving others

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court. ↗

— Cecile Richards

#cabinet #court #ever #more #obama

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. ↗

— Jean Henri Fabre

#common #common people #history #memory #past

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#courage #find #live #lives #need

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#anything #conservative #conserve #conserving #could

There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs. ↗

— Emanuel Cleaver

#about #around #city #employers #jobs

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#could #feels #his #invests #model