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
I love getting dressed up. Being a pop star is the most brilliant job for that. A lot of girls love shopping,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me,… — Florence King 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
It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the… — Dan Coats Copy Share Image
The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“The being who discharges the duties of its station, is independent; and, speaking of women at large, their first duty is to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils… — William James Copy Share Image
“I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred. I worship Life; the Sun,… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I make films because I have not learned anything else and I know I can do it to a certain degree. And… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave… — John Owen Copy Share Image
When I run a business, and I run a business, if I don't take advantage of the five deductions that are available… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Part of being in the 450 players within the NBA, it's kind of a fraternity field, and if I can help them… — Pat Connaughton Copy Share Image
As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of… — Richard Baxter 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
Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress -… — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home.… — Erika Slezak Copy Share Image
As a member of Congress, a coequal branch of government designed by our founders to provide checks and balances on the executive… — Will Hurd Copy Share Image
A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the… — Henry Morton Stanley Copy Share Image
It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office… — Anonymous Copy Share Image