Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

Calvin Coolidge

Duty is not collective; it is personal.

Andrew Johnson

Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.

Gianfranco Fini

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

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,

I think Willamette hates Weyerhaeuser. But that doesn't fit into their fiduciary duty to shareholders. There is nothing stopping Willamette from soliciting another bid.

I think Willamette hates Weyerhaeuser, ... But that doesn't fit into their fiduciary duty to shareholders. There is nothing stopping Willamette from soliciting another bid.

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.

The ranch has a duty to make sure its hillside stays on its property.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

We must educate these kids, and it is our duty as a nation to do so.

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

I think it was proper what I did. I think I had a duty to do what I did.

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.

This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.

Barry Humphries

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

Bat for Lashes

I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.

Alexander Hamilton

I think the first duty of society is justice

There are going to be at least three security guards on duty at all times,

Traffic signals are heavy-duty consumers. You're talking about big lamps.

Denis Diderot

To do his duty somehow, always to speak well of the Prior, and let the world go its own way.

Barbara Bush

The president remains in excellent health and fit for duty,