The Court's primary duty, in short, is not to minimize its role or avoid friction with the political branches, but to try… — Diane S. Sykes Copy Share Image
“The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
A President must call on many persons--some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I… — Betty Williams Copy Share Image
I got jury duty and I didn't want to go, so my friend said, "You should write something really really racist on… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
You this day, gentlemen, assume new characters, enter into new relations, and consequently incur new duties. You have, by the favor of… — William Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business,… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of… — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image
Don't forget who u are, your first duty is to think for yourself, If you put water into a cup, it becomes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The financial crisis of 2008-09 was in large part the result of the so-called 'success' of people who did not understand their… — Li Lu Copy Share Image
“I give whatever I can these days, and not just out of guilt or duty. That's what it is to love someone:… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings;… — Anne Baxter Copy Share Image
Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Christ never was in a hurry. There was no rushing forward, no anticipating, no fretting over what might be. Each day's duties… — Mary Slessor Copy Share Image
Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between the nonviolence that the ordinary Christian should embrace and the duty of civic… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Enter upon thy paths, O year! Thy paths, which all who breathe must tread, Which lead the Living to the Dead, I… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
I worked on 'Line of Duty' with Vicky McClure after she'd just finished the last series of 'This Is EnglandI think the… — Daniel Mays Copy Share Image
Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents;… — William James Copy Share Image
Sir, if you think that I am that kind of a man, you have missed your mark. I would rather die a… — Sam Davis Copy Share Image
I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
Writers seem mesmerized by the state - the temporal entity. The word 'perestroika' is impressed somehow on our minds. But that is… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“His duty he always faithfully did; but duty is sometimes a dry obligation, and he was for irrigating its aridity whensoever possible… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
