Harry Houdini Quotes

Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.

Harry Houdini

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• Situation very serious... Those ordered to rescue the Führer are keeping silent... Disloyalty seems to gain the upper hand everywhere... Reichskanzlei a heap of rubble.

  

  Martin Bormann
  • Serious
  • Situation
  • Disloyalty

• It undermines the key relationship between civil servants and ministers, ... It has led to very great concern, I may say, among the whole of the diplomatic service.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Great
  • May
  • Relationship

• The servants of Mary are as sure of getting to Paradise as though they were already there. Who are they who are saved and who reign in Heaven? Surely those for whom the Queen of Mercy intercedes ... The clients of Mary will necessarily be saved.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Heaven
  • Mercy
  • Paradise

• Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the day. True, Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, for He has made the promise, 'Ask, and you shall receive,' but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament will obtain a more abundant measure of grace.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • True
  • Spiritual
  • Blessed

• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must not walk in fear of one another. We must not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

  

  George Clooney
  • Age
  • Walks
  • Driven

• Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Business
  • Freedom
  • Servants

• When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

  

  Confucius
  • Duties
  • Servants
  • Labors

• It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

  

  Bono U2
  • Privilege
  • Studio
  • Servants

• How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Society
  • Servants
  • Social Services

• One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Good
  • Advantages
  • Servants

• The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Soul
  • Peaceful

• Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Fire
  • Master
  • Servants

• The American people need to know if public servants are operating in the best interests of the United States or the Kremlin.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Interests
  • Servants
  • American People

• Regardless of how many belts I collect, how many belts I win, God always has a way of humbling his servants. Sometimes, we can get out of control. Even us as children of God, we can get out of place and have a big head, so to speak. God always knows how to humble his servants and that's something that I always ask God to do, just to keep me humble. I could do nothing without the help of God. It is God that is within me who is allowing me and giving me the strength and the ability to do what I do. Without Him, I can't do anything.

  

  Anthony Macias
  • God
  • Help
  • Humble

• Except for the two years he had lived with cowboys in North Dakota,and being the employer of a dozen or so servants,Roosevelt had never had to suffer any prolonged intimacy with the working class.From infancy,he had enjoyed the perquisites of money and social position.The money,through his own mismanagement,had often run short,and he was by no means wealthy even now, but he had always taken exclusivity for granted.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Money
  • Enjoyed
  • Servants

• A woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

  

  Elsie de Wolfe
  • Woman
  • Grief
  • Sorrow

• Some of the parables that Matthew records and that Jesus delivered as part of his Olivet Discourse-such as the ten virgins and their lamps or the servants and the talents they were given-are some of the best known of Jesus' teachings. Reading them in the context of his prophecies about the end of the world, however, makes them clearly parables of preparation. To be on his right hand with his "sheep" rather than at his left hand with the "goats" at his return, we must prepare ourselves now.

  

  Eric D. Huntsman
  • Jesus
  • Preparation
  • Talents

• She is one of a dying breed. I love her very much.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Dying
  • I Love
  • Very Much

• The United States has collapsed economically, socially, politically, legally, constitutionally, and environmentally.

  

  Paul Craig Roberts
  • United States
  • Collapsed

• The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Mind
  • Understanding
  • Female

• In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

  

  Tina Turner
  • Tennessee
  • Wagons
  • Mules

• Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Servants
  • Disloyalty
  • Public performer