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"The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong." »Elizabeth II
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"The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce." »Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
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"An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service." »E.B. White
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"service without selfness, is not service" »Samuel A. Lucero
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"A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it." »Unknown
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"This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read." »Winston Churchill
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"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth." »Evan Esar
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"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance." »Rabindranath Tagore
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"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." »Robert Frost
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"It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late." »Marilyn Moats Kennedy
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"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." »Alfred Hitchcock
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"My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. (On campus radicals)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them." »H. G. Wells, Preface of "The Complete Science-Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells"
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"Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days." »Ecclesiastes
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"Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days." »Ecclesiastes
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"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters." »Margaret Halsey
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"Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God." »Marguerite de Valois
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"Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God." »W. E. Orchard
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"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." »Diane Ackerman
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"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." »I. F. Stone
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"If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your life so fully!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be" »Vincent Van Gogh
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"service is not easy but necessary" »Sindiswa Matyobeni
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"It is not length of life, but depth of life." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The end of all education should surely be service to others." »Cesar E. Chavez
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"The highest of distinctions is service to others." »King George VI
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"Your creative contribution to the world is your service to God." »Oscar Bonga Nomvete
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"service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." »Muhammad Ali
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