Joseph, when I had jewels and lands and palaces, I was often weary and discontent. When everything was taken away, except my life,... I learned that the way to be really happy is to serve others, to be needed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I made him a low curtsy and thanked him for the honor he intended me, but told him I had no kind of ambition to be his upper serva...nt.... I then asked him how many offices he had allotted for me to perform for those great advantages he had offered me, of suffering me to humor him in all his whims and to receive meat, drink, and lodging at his hands; but hoped he would allow me some small wages, that I might now and then recreate myself with my fellow servants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a youn...g mother hear you call dear baby "it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
--I am the resurrection and the life. That touches a man's inmost heart. --It does, Mr Bloom said.... Your heart perhaps but what price the fellow in the six feet by two with his toes to the daisies? No touching that. Seat of the affections. Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up: and there you are. Lots of them lying around here: lungs, hearts, livers. Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead. That last day idea. Knocking them all up out of their graves. Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job. Get up! Last day! Then every fellow mousing around for his liver and his lights and the rest of his traps. Find damn all of himself that morning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... such is the horrible idea that I entertain respecting a life of servitude, that if I conceived of there being no possibility o...f my rising above the condition of servant, I would gladly hail death as a welcome messenger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't think of myself as a sex symbol or a servant. I think of myself as somebody who knows how to open the door of a 747 in the... dark, upside down, and under water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »