Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

Right, in a word, is the duty which each man owes to himself; or it is that portion of the general good of which (as being principally interested) he is made the special judge, and which is put under his immediate keeping.

Voltaire

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

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.

Our government, all government, somehow failed in their duty that day. We need to know why.

That being said, it is our duty in our role in Iraq to point out when the process does not meet international standards.

My strategy is, right is right, and wrong is wrong. If you know your drug may kill people, you owe the duty to warn them.

Abu Bakar Bashir

Look at my own case: I am the father in my family. It is my duty to enforce the Shariah in my family and I do so with an iron hand.

Andrew Johnson

Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.

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.

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

Edith Wharton

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

There is a reason immigration is federal duty. It should be left to federal immigration officials.

Kerry Greenwood

I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.

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

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.

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,

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.

These people are doing their duty, they are doing their job and its an important job to do, ... Let's remember they didn't start this, they are just serving their country.

Not once or twice in our rough island-story,/ The path of duty was the way to glory.

George Eliot

I'm more and more impressed with the duty of finding happiness

Gordon Smith

I intend to. I have a duty to and I intend to reach out to him and if he wants to reach out to me, he'll find me a constructive participant.

John Selden

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice asonerous a duty

It used to be 80 percent of the industry had a 14 hour duty day. But now most of that is gone. It's just gone.

They lost everything and they're still on-duty, still working.

George Eliot

The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another

Geoffrey Fieger

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

If there is one important duty it is to yourself.