Dues Quotes - Page 30

• Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Men, Giving

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• Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Inspirational, Respect, Given

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1.

  Harlan Coben

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.

  Gail Collins

  War, Black And White, America

  Gail Collins (2009). “America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Genius, Literature, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.123

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• I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due not scorn and blame but reverence and praise.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Temples, Blame

  "The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression". Book by Robert E. Gilbert, p. 78, 2003.

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• Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Earth, Sun, Remains

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

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• I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

  Noel Coward

  Birthday, Tuesday, Age

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• Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.

  Larry Craig

  Cancer, America, Mammograms

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• Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

  Aleister Crowley

  Facts, Horror, Guilty

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• One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.

  Ted Cruz

  Taken, Responsibility, Government

  "Ted Cruz Puts Dewhurst on Defensive in Last Debate Before Texas Runoff" by Roque Planas, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2012.

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• It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.

  John Cusack

  Process, Radical, Frightening

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• Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

  Claire Danes

  Children, Three, World

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• The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Kids, Guy, Working Together

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• Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.

  Mark Dayton

  Cutting, Men, Iraq

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• Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Writing, School, Unique

  "Zooey Deschanel, 'New Girl' creator discuss the kiss, and the lack of a master plan for the show" by Jeff Jensen, ew.com. February 5, 2013.

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• Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mother, Men, Expectations

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• The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.

  Paul Dirac

  People, Suffering, Wish

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• Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Mean, People

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

  Philip Emeagwali

  School, Eight, Years

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• It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Doe, Pay, Intellect

  "Due Reverence: Antiques in the Possession of the American Philosophical Society". Book by Murphy D. Smith (p. 3), 1992.

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• Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.

  Louis Farrakhan

  America, People, May

  Louis Farrakhan (1993). “A Torchlight for America”, F C N Publishing Company

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• I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.

  Warren Farrell

  Dad, Children, Kids

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• Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

  E. M. Forster

  Funny, Beauty, Humor

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.134, RosettaBooks

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• Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.

  Ron Fournier

  Illinois, Mentor, Might

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