Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

“The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was…

— Charles Dickens

I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.

— Joanna Lumley

Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its…

— Agnes Repplier

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their…

— Jewel

And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul…

— David O. McKay

I regret if my actions hurt anyone or harmed the United States. It was never my intent to hurt anyone. When I chose to…

— Chelsea Manning

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had…

— Rupert Murdoch

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts;…

— Joseph Addison

The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

— James Russell Lowell

The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a…

— Max Weber

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain,…

— William Shakespeare

I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It…

— Camille Paglia

The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.

— Courtney Love