The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child,… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“A creature doesn't move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
I have a duty to teach my people about their rights and protect them from being bamboozled. — Ilhan Omar Copy Share Image
No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being. — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted. — Ugo Betti 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
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
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
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
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
“I give whatever I can these days, and not just out of guilt or duty. That's what it is to love someone:… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings;… — Anne Baxter Copy Share Image
Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I know there are people who do not quite agree with the division of India and the partition of the Punjab and… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary… — C. P. Scott Copy Share Image
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Nothing less than the majesty of God, and the powers of the world to come, can maintain the peace and sanctity of… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As Christians, it's our duty to stand up for what we believe - that's called testifying. — Johnny Van Zant Copy Share Image
I will return to Libya and undertake my duties and obligations to bring equality within the chaos. — Al-Saadi Gaddafi Copy Share Image
The honour of carrying the Canadian flag... brings with it a sense of duty, privilege, and above all, great pride. — Tessa Virtue Copy Share Image
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else. — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
'Line of Duty' is a social realist drama, so it's set in a world that has the recognisable features of the authentic… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“I answered the call to heal before I answered the call of duty to my country. My job is to help and… — Jesseca Wheaton Copy Share Image
As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
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