To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. — Ernst Fischer Copy Share Image
For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty. — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the government to guarantee maximum security, and this is not an easy task. — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
Use thy duties, as Noah's dove did her wings, to carry thee to the ark of the Lord Jesus Christ, where only… — Isaac Ambrose Copy Share Image
“find that even this idea of duty undergoes change, and that the greatest” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Leaving active duty was so I could become the best fighter in the world at my weight class. — Tim Kennedy Copy Share Image
If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will, but does not mean to attend to it,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
'What was being on the moon literally like?' [. . .] 'Being on the moon?' His tired gaze inspected the narrow street… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The fascination about being a judge is the same about the duty of being a judge, and that is to ask yourself,… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in… — Arthur Capper Copy Share Image
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt?… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your… — Ahmed Yassin Copy Share Image
'Line of Duty' does seem to be a bit old school as in people are happy to watch it, talk about it,… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is… — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. A plenary meeting of the Soviet must be called to decide on… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It is my duty to say: Something has to change. I say that very directly, in clear words so that nobody can… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue… — Minnie Pearl Copy Share Image
Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom - but I have them tailored. — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
The Call of Duty Endowment is a natural philanthropic extension of our brand. — Bobby Kotick Copy Share Image
From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act. — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
It is the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations. — William Carey Copy Share Image
To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When I played, it was the center's duty to be within 10 feet of the basket. — George Mikan Copy Share Image
He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I am a goalkeeper. My first duty is to save the goal. The second is to communicate with my defenders and organize… — P. R. Sreejesh Copy Share Image
Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image