Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an… — Honore de Balzac 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
The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him… — Immanuel Kant 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
We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly -- I had almost said each… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I like to be depressing. I feel it's my duty to make everyone a little less happy. You know that line in… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts,… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I think it is important to recall the context of those challenging times immediately following 9/11. For me, I had just returned… — Gina Haspel Copy Share Image
I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life.… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Our world has created a false unrealistic image of what women are supposed to look like and act like. But the truth… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Of all earthly blessings, I place Liberty in the first rank, and of course, consider the obligation to defend and preserve it,… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“Sacrebleu, Clara, what are you doing to me?” he whispered. Why did she have to see so damned much? Why did she… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
If the president is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
. . . if you close your eyes and begin to feel your breath, it will instantly become deeper and slower, and… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken… — T. B. H. Stenhouse Copy Share Image
When there is love, there is no duty. When you love your wife, you share everything with her-your property, your trouble, your… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do.… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as there is a useful purpose to what we do as VCs, I tend to think it's our duty not only… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
Of all my prosecutorsnot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Satan's time of tempting is usually after an ordinance; and the reason is, because then he thinks he shall find us most… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . .… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges,… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Citizens ... should be practitioners of civic virtue in their conduct toward government. They should be ever willing to fulfill the duties… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image