What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities. — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We must remember our duty to Nature before it is too late. That duty is constant. It is never completed. It lives… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I am classified as a disabled veteran. The reason I'm disabled is because I have wounds and injuries that I got while… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competing, because there's room for everyone. You have to compete with yourself, because your duty to grow as… — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense… — Emma Bonino Copy Share Image
Not to perceive the little weaknesses and the idle but innocent affectations of the company may be allowable as a sort of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I went on to play Samantha in 'Casual Vacancy' and that was a role I don't think I would have got had… — Amanda Redman Copy Share Image
Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he… — Andreas Osiander Copy Share Image
Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will."… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
“Honor is no phantom. Duty doesn't melt away, no matter how much we might wish it to.” — Claudia J. Edwards Copy Share Image
Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty! Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty: Love given willingly, full and… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Confronting this regime and opposing Zionists are a national duty, as well as religious and Islamic duty, and a human duty. Even… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently.… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
Women politicians take their job seriously and accomplish their duties diligently and sensitively. Only they can understand the problems of women and… — Preneet Kaur Copy Share Image
It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
