Responsibility Quote by Lytton Strachey Download Open image ““punctual discharge of his irksome duties.”” — Lytton Strachey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Responsibility
“You will be expected to obey orders, or this appointment can and will be terminated. Again, at the discretion of the primary. We run… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
“...he arrived late at the office, perceived that his doing so made no difference whatever to any one, and was filled with sudden exasperation… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.” — Bhagavad Gita Copy Share Image
We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“A soldier had his duty to perform and he did it. It might mean hunger and thirst and exhaustion.” — C.M. Curtis Copy Share Image
“I was fired. For insubordination. I test very high on insubordination,” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always… — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share Image
“Duty. Honor. He yearns to write his name large across the book of history, to get away from his wife, or both. Perhaps he… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally,… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I can't believe that I'm sitting in meetings with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Annette Bening. I want to take on that responsibility to… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our… — James T. Conway Copy Share Image
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I am a fighter and I am in that fight and I have to make sure that I share the responsibility with my players… — Erik ten Hag Copy Share Image
I think it's unhelpful to suggest that the task of evangelism is essentially the responsibility of ministers. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with… — Cliff Curtis Copy Share Image
I think accepting an instruction is part of a player's responsibility. — Sam Allardyce Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
