Gratuity Quotes

• Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.

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  Marilyn vos Savant

  People   Literature   Poor  

  263

• I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

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  John Ford

  Simple   Directors   Film  

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• YOU have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.' Get off of the car,' J.Lo huffed. 'I am an English superstar.' Uh-uh. There's no comparison. 'Gratuity' in written Boovish has seventeen different bubbles that all have to be the right size and in the right place. 'J.Lo' in written English only has three letters, and you still spelled it 'M-smiley face-pound sign.

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  Adam Rex

  Laughing   Car   Rooms  

  Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.178, A&C Black

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• A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

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  Charles Caleb Colton

  Civilization   Luxury   Selfishness  

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.227

  4347

• If a waiter or waitress tells me when gratuity is included they automatically get more gratuity. When they hide it I go with the leg kick.

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  Jay Mohr

  Legs   Waitress   Gratuity  

  3316

• Indeed, beauty is one of mankind's greatest needs; it is the root from which the branches of our peace and the fruits of our hope come forth. Beauty also reveals God because, like him, a work of beauty is pure gratuity; it calls us to freedom and draws us away from selfishness.

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  Pope Benedict XVI

  Roots   Selfishness   Needs  

  Pope Benedict XVI's Holy Mass With Dedication Of The Church Of The Sagrada Familia And Of The Altar, w2.vatican.va. November 7, 2010.

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• One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

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  Steven Spielberg

  Volunteer   Directors   Details  

  4049

• The paramount problem... is how to make this new form of property ownership a workable agent toward repeopleizing the proprietorship of the country's industries. Open to the wage-earner of the country the road to proprietorship... not as a gratuity, but as their proper allotment out of the combined forces that have made the enterprise successful.

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  Peter S. Grosscup

  Country   Successful   Agents  

  1291

• Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money. By "they" I mean the people who cannot understand that rain is a festival, who do not appreciate its gratuity, who think that what has no price has no value, that what cannot be sold is not real, so that the only way to make something actual is to place it on the market. The time will come when they will sell you even your rain. At the moment it is still free, and I am in it. I celebrate its gratuity and its meaninglessness.

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  Thomas Merton

  Real   Rain   Mean  

  Thomas Merton (1966). “Raids on the Unspeakable”, p.9, New Directions Publishing

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• Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges—to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful— the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

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  Andrew Jackson

  Powerful   Mean   Humble  

  Veto Message on Bank Bill, 10 July 1832

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• This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline of thought, desire, and action, one that frees the mind from habitual prejudices and appetites, and allows it to dwell in the gratuity and glory of all things. As an old monk on Mount Athos once told me, contemplative prayer is the art of seeing reality as it truly is; and, if one has not yet acquired the ability to see God in all things, one should not imagine that one will be able to see God in himself.

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  David Bentley

  Art   Prayer   Simple  

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