Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

Paul Clarke

The outcome helps us fulfill our duty of providing maximum returns on our investments to fund the work of the church.

Kevin Chambers

There is no process for regular review of local issuing authorities. If someone just stops performing that duty, we'd have no way of knowing that.

Benjamin Franklin

Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.

Leith Kubba

It is the duty of the government to provide security for the judicial system while at the same time respecting its independence,

Atharva Veda

It is the duty of learned ones to ensure that the tribe of noble people keeps on growing. This they can do by means of proper guidance and tutelage.

Annette Lu

It is the duty of all local officials to stay as prepared as possible for the typhoon,

Geoffrey Fieger

This lawsuit is about duty, this lawsuit is about accountability, this lawsuit is about responsibility.

Pete Piringer

They're actually going to relieve some of the New Orleans firefighters who have been on duty since the storm hit.

Gerhard Schroeder

Whether it will be a success, I do not know. But I want to help ensure it works,

Tom Vilsack

When we find new markets for our harvest, we ensure the security of our state's economy,

James Larkin

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

Amrit Bohara

At a time when the government was getting ready for a confrontation, the rebels' announcement has helped eased the tension and ensure that there will be no violence.

Greg Bird

It's entirely possible they get that money back. We just want to ensure that money is there.

Jim Zemlin

This certification lab will increase the number of Linux applications and ensure that Linux does not fragment.

Phil Heatley

I trust that the Auditor-General will ensure a swift, thorough and transparent investigation, and I look forward to seeing the terms of reference.

Li Keqiang

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.

Paul Bresson

As communications technologies develop, we must ensure that such progress does not come at the expense of our nation's safety and security.

Bob Woodward

It's astonishing how you can get people to help you who in a sense probably shouldn't help you, who will make admissions and provide guidance endangering to themselves.

Joe Moglia

This guidance is not only higher than Ameritrade stand-alone, but TD Ameritrade will have a more diversified, less volatile revenue stream.

Edward Snyder

They posted upside to the quarter on strong wire link products, and their guidance for the next quarter is better than people were anticipating, significantly so.

Andrew Baker

They really need to start providing guidance as soon as they can.

Juvenal

No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.

Justin Post

Excluding guidance, 4Q negatives were hard to find, in our view.

Dalai Lama

Wisdom is the best guide and faith is the best companion.

Tina Yothers

You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself.

Sri Aurobindo

Until you get a guidance from above you cannot be sure; but to get this guidance it requires time and sadhana.

Neve McIntosh

I tend to do yoga before I go on stage, so that keeps me nice and calm.

Joe Jurevicius

We'll see if that keeps happening, ... You have to do what you have to do. I'm not going to worry about numbers. I'm just going to go out and do my job.

Carol Carter

Working keeps us young. We don't want to be the type of people to retire and sit around and do nothing.

Leon Panetta

Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.

Chet Huber

As you drive, when you come to a point where you should turn right, the radio mutes and the recorded voice tells you to turn right and keeps telling you where to go until you get to your destination.

Rig Veda

A man who is desirous of success and strength should work incessantly just like the wheels of a chariot which keeps on moving.

Daniel Woodrell

This happens to me all the time: I think I'm working on one thing, but this other thing, whether I want it to or not, keeps coming through.

Dio Dante

It's mental, getting used to the tempo. It keeps getting faster. I just try to keep up.

Dennis Quaid

It's about... my only strategy I've ever had in my career is to do as many different types of roles as possible, as many different types of genres. It keeps the fire in my belly.

Nicholas Negroponte

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Alexa Vega

I've been through a marriage, and I'm still very fond of my ex-husband; but if I've learned anything, it's that relationships are about compromise.

Michael Brown

We've been able to put those things we've learned in the past in place and save many more structures,

Melissa Leo

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.

Denise Bottcher

A lot of the lessons were learned before (Hurricane) Rita.

Daniel Alfredsson

A lot of us learned from Salt Lake, and we learned that if you're not ready, anything can happen.

Bobby Bowden

They played like freshmen. Maybe they learned something.

Kelly Williams

This has been a real challenge, but in the end it is going to be worth it. I feel I learned a lot about how public relations work, and not just that but I learned a lot about myself as well.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Brian Eno

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

Natalie Massenet

For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.

Chris Harper

We're so young that when they start to press, we think that means we need to speed up.

Jennifer Rodriguez

Wow! I'm really touched. This means a lot to me.

Sathya Baba

Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. 

Jimmy Smith

We're more settled. A new regime means changes, and things have settled down.

Cat Deeley

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

Brandon Sanderson

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Baha'u'llah

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

Jane Goodall

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Benjamin Disraeli

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

Charles Kingsley

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Desiderius Erasmus

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

Blaise Pascal

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Aristotle

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Jim Ratcliffe

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

Mary Leith

It's more about who has the proper credentials to be a leader.

Publius Tacitus

Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.

Dan Quinn

I told my wife this would be the only lakefront property we'd ever have,

Tamsin Greig

In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.

John Pistole

The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.

Allen Lichtenstein

Proper review is not particularly burdensome, so there is no real need for this. It's like they're saying we don't need judges, we don't want any review at all.

John Jones

Proper legislation can put a stop to many of these practices, but politicians need to know their constituents are being ripped off and are upset about it.

Edward Gibbon

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

Charles Simic

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

Robert A. Heinlein

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom is not sin even when it feels so; sin is wronging another person.

Roland Joffe

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.

Saint Patrick

So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

Sean Connery

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

I belong to the tribe of Levi.

Martin Van Buren

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

Tigua Senclair

I don't think you can undo or get restitution to what he's done to the tribe. Financially, the tribe is surviving, but it's been hard.