
Lovely as a spring day but not the sort to make one envious, any more than one would envy the sun its ability to shine. —
Julie Anne Long

The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies. —
Laozi

A
civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it. —
George S. Patton

A
civil servant doesn't make jokes. —
Eugene Ionesco

In a mature society, '
civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.' —
Robert A. Heinlein

Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a
civil servant. He did not come from money. —
Douglas Brinkley

You can't be a Red if you're married to a
civil servant. —
Doris Lessing

It's the most rewarding thing to be a
civil servant. —
Sargent Shriver

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room. —
Frank McCourt

Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient
civil servant. —
Tom Holt

I say, carpe the chaos, for in chaos is opportunity. —
Gloria Feldt

I'm a statistic in a system that a
civil servant dominates. —
Billy Joel

Neither could really help the other find sleep. But sometimes it was better just to know you weren't the only one awake. —
Maggie Stiefvater

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the
civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired. —
Madam C. J. Walker

We put our fingers in the eyes of those who doubt that Libya is ruled by anyone other than its people. —
Muammar Al-Gaddafi

Some
civil servants are neither servants nor civil. —
Winston Churchill

The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy. —
Ursula Burns