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Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.
— Robert Duvall
No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.
— Honore De Balzac
Insist on your life, never imitate ... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
God shapes us with a hammer of pain on an anvil of duty. I cannot imagine what shape we will be when He is finished.
— Tad Williams
I'm not attached to anything.I'm attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty.
I think that I will die with the boots on. — Fidel Castro
This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.
— Charlie Gonzalez
As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty.
— Tulsi Gabbard
That morning on sentry duty, before Percy showed up, Frank had almost told Hazel his secret.
— Rick Riordan
Never in former days would any high lord of this land have constrained a man to abandon such a quest as mine. My duty at least is clear, to go on.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.
— Billy Childish
Put thou thy trust in God;In duty's path go on;
Fix on His word thy steadfast eye;
So shall thy work be done. — Martin Luther
I've found my line- from now on this comes first. This is my immediate duty- without this I am nothing.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.
— Abdu'l- Baha
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
— William Styron
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
— Oscar Wilde
I think that when you're making a story ... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.
— Ryan Coogler
I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.
— William Carey
That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
— Philip Pullman
A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.
— Gerhard Schroder
We're so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we've got men like Atticus to go for us.
— Harper Lee
Was once on trauma duty when a young man about twenty years old was rolled in, shot in the buttock.
— Atul Gawande
It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.
— Billy Collins
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
— John Stuart Mill
On my honor, I will do my bestTo do my duty To God and my country — Boy Scouts Of America
I secretly assumed, as poets do,The duty on me to define the moon. — Jorge Luis Borges
Rebecca Byers, the comm officer on duty, could have been bred from a shark and a hatchet.
— James S.A. Corey
The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.
— Jean Baudrillard
The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.
— Theodore Parker
I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this man has done his duty.
— Nelson Mandela
Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.
— Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.
— William Mountford
There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.
— Paul Watson
Christians have their attitude toward God changed from one of duty to free, loving self-giving because of what Jesus did for us on the cross.
— Timothy J. Keller
We cannot and we must not allow ourselves to get distracted from our sacred duty. We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
— Teresa Of Avila
We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.
— Haruki Murakami
My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is the duty of a Saint of God to gain all the influence he can on this earth, and to use every particle of that influence to do good.
— Brigham Young
Raven: The Reverend Mr Larynx has been called off on duty, to marry or bury (I don't know which) some unfortunate person or persons, at Claydyke: ...
— Thomas Love Peacock
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
— James Harvey Robinson
Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one's nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake!
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya
Gravity is on duty all of the time.
— Laurence Gonzales
Discouragements, then, must come from ourselves and Satan, who laboureth to fasten on us a loathing of duty.
— Richard Sibbes
We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
— John Calvin
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
— John James Audubon
On their faces an expression like the letters of a legend, written around the base of a statue praising duty, gratitude, fidelity, love of England ...
— Virginia Woolf
I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last ...
— Adoniram Judson
The greatest duty of life is to find the ultimate purpose of life. The second greatest duty is to put a laser focus on it and take action.
— Debasish Mridha
I feel it is the duty of one who goes his own way to inform society of what he finds on his voyage of discovery.
— C. G. Jung
A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation.
— Donald Horne
I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.
— Ian Fleming
One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.
— Phyllis Schlafly
In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.
— Henry Spencer
I don't often agree with the RSPCA as I believe it is an animal's duty to be on my plate at supper time.
— Jeremy Clarkson
A call to duty, a call for service.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.[On Water] — Guy De Maupassant
The terrible duty is that of going all the way to the end. And without relying on anyone. To live oneself.
— Clarice Lispector
A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.
— Philip Zaleski
He wiped the sweat from his face on his sleeve, squared his shoulders, and strode back into the fray. All there was to do was his duty.
— Diana Gabaldon
The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.
— George MacDonald
I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.
— David O. Russell
Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world ... Focus on your main duty
— Epictetus
It is a duty incumbent on every true deist, that he vindicates the moral justice of God against the calumnies of the Bible.
— Thomas Paine
There is no lifeguard on duty. We each swim at our own risk during this short journey." ~ Lisa Fantino/Amalfi Blue
— Lisa Fantino
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
— James Anthony Froude
The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.
— Mo Yan
Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.
— William Godwin
Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.
— River Phoenix
Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?
— Brandon Sanderson
It is the duty of every American citizen to take part in a vigorous debate on the issues of the day.
— Thomas Jefferson
Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
You don't free yourself from duty by running away. That only increases the weight on your shoulders.
— James Alan Gardner
Then on! then on! where duty leads,My course be onward still.
— Reginald Heber
