“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief. — Nathan Hale Copy Share Image
“... It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring” — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right. — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
We had the biggest democratic exercise, and the majority voted to leave the E.U. It is our duty to make sure we… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
“Friendship and duty are two separate things,” he said, “and I put duty first. You are another generation, you wouldn’t understand.” — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me… — Janusz Korczak Copy Share Image
We have a duty to show up in the world with meaning and purpose and commitment to doing good. And to use… — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause.… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
We must end the iniquitous multi-taxing of the same money. It is not right to tax people's incomes, then their savings on… — Liam Fox Copy Share Image
What we need is congressional action to establish a federal principle of fiduciary duty - encapsulated by the phrase 'no man can… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I think it would be difficult to explore some aspects of Ted's past, because 'Line of Duty' investigates fictitious police forces -… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
The great interests of an agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing nation are so linked in union together that no permanent cause of prosperity… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth;… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to… — Ala Bashir Copy Share Image
We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Emerging investors want to invest differently. They want to have their dollars - their investment dollars - do double duty. — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: They sweetly sleep who die upon her breast. — Henry Abbey Copy Share Image
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter. — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
When what we want to do and what we ought to do are two different things, character is built in the choice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
