It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by… — John Muir 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
My background was fairly conservative, and I think there's a strong notion of duty in a background like that, and I don't… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The duty of universities is toward their nation, for which they must prepare leaders in all fields and these must be necessarily… — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
“Life is duty and obligation, therefore love, too, is a duty. It's as if God sent it to me,' she said, looking… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
I think I'm still just as conflicted about the war as I always was. On the one hand, I was a soldier… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted. — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I just had a really good time when I did my voice work for 'Call of Duty.' I've had nothing but great… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ...… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods,… — Charlie Dent 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
Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand?… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
I have always endeavoured, as my double duty of believer and sovereign dictated, to follow the precepts of the sacred Book of… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 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
The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
On the eve of my laying down office, with the inauguration of the Republic, I should like to tender my greetings and… — C. Rajagopalachari Copy Share Image
The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America's torch alone. But it is America's duty -… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
