It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“Honor and duty will ride upon my shoulders till the day I die, like the old man of the sea, who once… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created? — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I worked in a petrol station on the A1 one summer. I enjoyed it except when I was on latrine duty. — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the people… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts… — John Piper Copy Share Image
It turns out that dopamine is a chemical on double duty in the brain. Along with its role in motor commands, it… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The brutal soldiers satisfied their sensual appetites without consulting either the inclination or the duties of their female captives; and a nice… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Doubt--because doubt is not a sin, it is a sign of your intelligence. You are not responsible to any nation, to any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures:… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I've been really into a light, bright playfulness that's been missing. I looked at these '60s and '70s photos of Jackie O.… — Christian Siriano Copy Share Image
At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria… — Nils Kjaer Copy Share Image
“Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty. — Angeles Mastretta Copy Share Image
The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial. — Salvador Bernal Copy Share Image
Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
Do you feel it's right for the England Captain to avoid his media duties? — Garth Crooks Copy Share Image
Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
“We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government. — Ken Starr Copy Share Image
I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty. — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
