Serving Life Sentences

Famous quotes containing the words serving, life and/or sentences:

    “The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “To drift with every passion till my soul
    Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play,
    Is it for this that I have given away
    Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control?
    Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll
    Scrawled over on some boyish holiday”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book—what everyone else does not say in a book.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)