If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers,… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty,… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
“ Full moon is falling through the sky. Cranes fly through clouds. Wolves howl. I cannot find rest Because I am powerless… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
For me, I have a bunch of friends back home in Canada who play online all the time - so we get… — Andrew Wiggins Copy Share Image
I'm glad things are getting better, but I'm going to push and be pissed off until they're perfect. That will probably never… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Even though the party or ideology of government is important, after the formation of the government it's the duty of the government… — Uddhav Thackeray Copy Share Image
It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
“[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
I have sort of a visceral aversion to the prominence of the either active duty, in the case of General McMaster, or… — James R. Clapper Copy Share Image
If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Going far beyond that call of duty, doing more than others expect, this is what excellence is all about! And it comes… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering… — William Henry Harrison Copy Share Image
As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
I would encourage the youth to get in to their bodies as much as possible through sport or exercise, and to embrace… — Leilani Bishop Copy Share Image
A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
Law enforcement officers must carry out their sacred duty to protect and serve in a way that earns the trust of our… — John Bel Edwards Copy Share Image
There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty. To prepare tabernacles for them;… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
There must be something here for me to get or to share or to do. So I have the duty that I… — Gary Kraftsow Copy Share Image
The matter of consulting experienced workers, of keeping all the workers informed of changes in production and wage methods, and how the… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
God has so ordered, that in pressing on in duty we shall find the truest, richest comfort for ourselves. Sitting down to… — Lettie Cowman Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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