Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When I run a business, and I run a business, if I don't take advantage of the five deductions that are available… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
I have this little neighbor next door. He comes over and tells me about playing Call of Duty, and he's talking about,… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that eternal goal,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents'… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
If we are to become the masters of science, not its slaves, we must learn to use its immense power to good… — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image
It's rare to find someone excited over jury duty. If they're out there, I've never met them. Not a one. When the… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
Part of being in the 450 players within the NBA, it's kind of a fraternity field, and if I can help them… — Pat Connaughton Copy Share Image
I make films because I have not learned anything else and I know I can do it to a certain degree. And… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“They always seemed to know everything, but now there is only me, and it seems I know nothing, not even my duty.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
We would often rather seem dutiful to others than to succeed in our duties; and often we would rather tell our friends… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I have sort of a visceral aversion to the prominence of the either active duty, in the case of General McMaster, or… — James R. Clapper Copy Share Image
Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation?… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is… — Charles Inglis Copy Share Image
We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the… — Dan Coats Copy Share Image
“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me,… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God,… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
I love getting dressed up. Being a pop star is the most brilliant job for that. A lot of girls love shopping,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
