Famous Quotes & Sayings

Farida Karoney

It was about midnight when hooded men raided our offices and ordered the night duty staff to switch off the transmission.

Christopher Hill

We all felt duty-bound to continue, because I think there is a feeling that we have taken this further than we ever have in the past,

Mason Cooley

Duty is whatever opposes inclination.

Thomas Huxley

Learn what is true, in order to do what is right, is the summing up of the whole duty of man, for all who are unable to satisfy their mental hunger with the east wind of authority.

Voltaire

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

Marshall Field

More things to remember: 7) The value of time; 8) The pleasure of working; 9) The obligation of duty; 10) The power of kindness; 11) The wisdom of economy; 12) The virtue of patience.

Kris Carson

Monday night will be a little different. We're doing something called traffic pacing. It's a rolling roadblock. We'll use off duty police officers. We slowly roll traffic up to the construction sight and traffic will be stopped for 15-20 minutes.

Dick Armey

from executing its duty to protect and uphold the Constitution.

Woodrow Wilson

I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you

Dan Hampton

It was a perfect storm of talent, personalities, direction, goals and dominance.

Kevin Myers

I see our role as a complement, not an alternative to the public schools. We view ourselves as a partner, an extension. Our goal is to return the kids to the public schools as quickly as possible.

Fernando Gauna

I set my goal to get up there in the 40s. Everyone supported me. Everyone was just trying to get me assists, and they were all happy to be a part of it.

Andre Roy

I've been on teams like Ottawa and Tampa Bay, and when we played the last place team we'd think, all right, this is a good night for every guy to get a goal or whatever. Everyone looks at it that way.

Ben Bishop

It would have been nice to get a shutout, but I would take one goal (allowed) every game.

Pete Buccino

It would be hard to go under 3:50 this time of year. Our goal is to improve on last year's time, but you never know. The kids just may get up for it.

Tom Boonen

The world's is the only race that matter for me. My goal here at the Vuelta is sharpen my fitness. If I win a stage, great, but the most important thing at the Vuelta is to leave stronger than I came.

Eric Nieslanik

This is a setback today. Our goal is to play like the way Moffat played today.

Will Whitehorn

This is a project not without risk. It's our goal to be the first ones to do it safely.

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Aristotle

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

Noel Coward

There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed, / And if this is pleasure we'd rather be dead.

Donna Leon

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

Douglas Adams

...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.

Anita Loos

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

David Foster Wallace

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

Confucius

To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?

Steve Forbes

I like his rational for why I'm not in the White House. I'll take it. It's better than some I've gotten.

Menachem Begin

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.