Satan wants to claim our souls and those of our children. He want our marriages and our families to fail. He wants… — John H. Groberg Copy Share Image
If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Whoever would entitle himself after death through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout… — Thomas Secker Copy Share Image
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse.… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use… — Donna Woolfolk Cross Copy Share Image
...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight'… — Ze'ev Jabotinsky Copy Share Image
This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it.… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally… — Henry George Copy Share Image
I've worn a lot of humdingers in my time, but as a model it's my duty - my responsibility - to bring… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Who would have believed that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as servants and slaves on the… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master… One of the duties of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You're wonderful. So full of life and excitement. The priests and servants of the palace, they wear colors, but there's no color… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Think about this some of us actively fighting to remove Saddam Hussein don't agree with the cause themselves, but they're doing their… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm;… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
In my day, when I was a young kid, army duty was compulsory in South Africa or you go to jail. I… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
My observation is that my dealings with the president on some of the most important issues that the president Donald Trump has… — Mike Pompeo Copy Share Image
Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
My duty as a member of the Council of the Twelve is to protect what is most unique about the LDS church,… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Go in all simplicity; do not be anxious to win a quiet mind, and it will be all the quieter. Do not… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Many of Islam's apologists insist that suicide bombing is not Islamic because the Koran forbids suicide. Mmm-hmm. So where are all the… — Jamie Glazov Copy Share Image
In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they're thinking... when they're laughing... and when they are making choices… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image