Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could. — Henrietta Szold Copy Share Image
This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to reconcile the irreconcilables, to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
“It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering. According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed.… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his… — Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned Copy Share Image
Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races. — Dan Castellaneta Copy Share Image
Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse.… — Confucius Copy Share Image
But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue… — Minnie Pearl Copy Share Image
All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was… — Prince William Copy Share Image
It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying. — Bill Vaughan 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
The old women only stuck around this long out of a sense of duty. Your mom was the same way. That's why… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience. — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
It is the government's fundamental duty to ensure the security of every individual citizen. — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become… — Marjorie Hillis Copy Share Image
Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
So do your duty, boys, and join with prideServe your country in her suicideFind the flags so you can wave goodbyeBut just… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
It is the duty of a prudent minister of God to hold his ministry in honor and to see to it that… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We are following Allah's word. We believe that humanity's only duty is to honor Allah and his prophet Muhammad, peace be upon… — Abdul Sattar Abu Risha Copy Share Image
Whoever would entitle himself after death through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout… — Thomas Secker Copy Share Image
It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself,… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
I am quite sure that from America will come the greatest help for the cause of peace, and I consider it my… — Bertha von Suttner Copy Share Image
When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they may be printed in. "… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
