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
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
What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth. — Brigham Young 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
“That, after all, was his job. The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty. To make everything better.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into… — W. C. Brownell Copy Share Image
In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity,… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy,… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Let me begin now, this very night, to emulate Christ. Cast off forever will be the old self and with it defeat,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The Church must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's… — John Cho Copy Share Image
Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops. — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. — Ernst Fischer Copy Share Image
Achieving it is not only the chief means of adding to your regular duties. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
It's great for people who like the teamwork and that also like the commando style, and that's why I think 'Call of… — Karl-Anthony Towns 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