Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
Just working on a character and his mannerisms, but not looking the part, is not my thing. It is your duty as… — Gautam Rode Copy Share Image
Some of my team-mates in the Under-18s used to play 'Call of Duty' and they told me I should jump on it.… — Hector Bellerin Copy Share Image
France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
Anyway, it's not true that the authorities cannot access the content of the phone even if there is no back door. When… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If you knew the satisfaction of performing such a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Immigrants bring to America the values of faith in God, love of family, hard work and self reliance - the values that… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We have a duty to ensure that patients don't have to worry whether they'll be dropped from their coverage if they get… — Jeff Merkley Copy Share Image
I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it's their… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe him,” said Hermione in a very unsteady voice, the moment they were out of earshot of Hagrid. “I don’t… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Wander a whole summer if you can. Thousands of God's blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Politics is my second passion, but as a historian, you have to be genuinely neutral. You have failed in your primary duty… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
A man of the Night's Watch lives his life for the realm. Not for a king, nor a lord, nor the honor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
WHEREAS it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful… — George Washington Copy Share Image
True piety admits no other rule than that whatsoever things have been faithfully received from our fathers the same are to be… — Vincent of Lerins Copy Share Image
My mom had a job, and she also took care of us, and she also took care of Dad - I always… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Frivolous thinking is due to foreign thought. Japan must no longer let the impudence of the white peoples go unpunished. It is… — Sadao Araki Copy Share Image
I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
In the weeks since I had made the decision to leave my father's house, I had grown up. And I had learned… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering, ... According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
my dream is someday to have a bank of TVs, where all the different channels could be on and I could be… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
