Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
'What was being on the moon literally like?' [. . .] 'Being on the moon?' His tired gaze inspected the narrow street… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will, but does not mean to attend to it,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in… — Arthur Capper Copy Share Image
The fascination about being a judge is the same about the duty of being a judge, and that is to ask yourself,… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt?… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Though not a remarkably precocious child in other respects, she seemed to have very clear and correct views on almost every subject… — Martha Finley Copy Share Image
One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have… — George Polya Copy Share Image
The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited… — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
It was the difference between walking with a stranger and walking with your heartmate. It was the difference between working for duty… — Edith Pattou Copy Share Image
“A woman keeps to home and family, and tends to matters inside the home. A man keeps to war games and tends… — Susan Fraser King Copy Share Image
It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We have not only the right, but a specific duty, to honestly and unflinchingly look at all aspects of our world, both… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean,… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one… — Victor Cherbuliez Copy Share Image
I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police,… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
He [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to take… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Like you? I go out of here every morning...bust my butt...cause I like you? It's my job. It's my responsibility!... Not cause… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image