Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zadie Smith

The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected

William Godwin

They held it their duty to live but for their country.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

Sylvester Croom

We had curfew duty together in Green Bay. He's not going to play tricks. He knows my philosophy, and I know his.

We don't want to put them out of business, but we owe a duty to the public to ensure we're making it safe,

You have the duty and gift of living. You don't have the right to sit on the sidelines-use your life and get back into the game.

I am very grateful for the opportunities I've had and feel I have a duty to repay my good fortune through philanthropic endeavors that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion.

Voltaire

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

I have a right to say these things without censorship. Isn't it the duty of an opinion writer to be provocative and stir debate?

I felt I had a duty to warn the prosecutor.

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

Eliot Spitzer

What we have is a fundamental violation of the rights of shareholders and a violation of the duty of mutual funds to protect the interests of long-term shareholders,

Gianfranco Fini

Italian prosecutors have the right and duty to verify responsibility and possible guilt.

Henry Hyde

Today it's our responsibility and our constitutional duty to review those materials referred to us and recommend to the House of Representatives whether the matter merits a further inquiry.

There is a fiduciary duty here. It's really inconceivable to us.

There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy

John King

We feel it?s our duty to do it because it?s God?s work.

We supply food and medication to our customers, and thought that duty was greater.

He was involved before, but he took on a whole new duty.

He had a sense of duty right from the get-go.

Jim Davis

He had the sense of duty of comradeship with the people he'd been training with, and felt he wanted to go with them.

He has disgraced his office. He has breached his duty to the people of California.

Danny Smith

He'd never been held accountable for anything he'd done sexually with these children. This jury found it their duty to make him pay for what he had done.

Arlen Specter

I'd like the specifics in writing, focusing on why the people whose information was breached couldn't have been notified earlier. Those people are all at risk, and you have a duty to notify them at the earliest possible moment.

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

Edith Wharton

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

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

Li Zhaoxing

The position of the U.N. ... must be strengthened so that it can perform its duty of safeguarding peace in a more effective way,

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.

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.