I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Service is the only thing that's important about love. Everybody is worried about 'losing yourself' - all this narcissism. Duty. We can't… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when… — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
At my ashram, people work long hours joyfully because they are inspired. When people are involved and joyfully doing something, they usually… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Vladimir did great things—so could she. Besides, they come first, right?" "Not always." I stared. I'd had they come first drilled into… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Soul Gathers Force It is possible, when the future is dim, when our depressed faculties can form no bright ideas of the… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
After four tours of duty as a Navy SEAL officer, I came home from Iraq and watched the VA - the second-biggest… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This is an amazing country, for all of its faults. My feeling is, dig in and let's try to change the world.… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In 1975, I was called to active duty in the Air Force, studying U.S. space launches that used nuclear power. I felt… — Lonnie Johnson Copy Share Image
It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself… — Donald Cargill Copy Share Image
perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty,… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it,… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
President Obama was in Disney World today where he unveiled his new plan to create jobs. He was joined by Mickey Mouse… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother's milk… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties,… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“A man is born into certain relationships and as a result has certain duties. For instance, he has a duty of loyalty… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart From its present pathway part not! Being everything which now thou art, Be… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
One of the greatest benefits to come out of 'Lean In' was convincing women to help and support other women - not… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
“It was my duty to... Oh, hell. Of course, duty had nothing to do with it. I just wanted to get back… — Martin M. Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous… — Julius Bate Copy Share Image
Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
As Muslims it is our duty to condemn the killings and our duty to ensure that those on the fringe do not… — Iqbal Sacranie Copy Share Image
My husband and I each had careers and two babies at home. They just demand everything from you. All the domestic duties… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
