Duty Quotes - Page 39

• But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.

  Marie de France

  Wheels, Never Forget, Fortune

  Marie (de France) (1978). “The lais of Marie de France”, Dutton Adult

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• Christ never was in a hurry. There was no rushing forward, no anticipating, no fretting over what might be. Each day's duties were done as each day brought them, and the rest was left with God.

  Mary Slessor

  Rushing, Done, Each Day

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• The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Men, Ideas, Done

  H. P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Key to Theosophy”, p.78, BookRix

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• The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.

  Lord David Cecil

  Appreciation, Effort, Literature

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• I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.

  Terry Eagleton

  Stupid, Thinking, Ideas

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• It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Art, Moving, People

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• As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

  David Puttnam

  Intelligent, World, Responsible

  " A Lord’s Call To Arms: David Puttnam Addresses Edinburgh" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2009.

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• Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Artist, Mirrors, Hands

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• This post of President is a Constitutional post. It is the duty of everyone, all citizens to see that they respect the post... the institution of President.

  Pratibha Patil

  President, Citizens, Institutions

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• Mandatory auditor rotation is designed to address a potential conflict of interest between a public company and its auditor. Because an auditor is hired and paid by the public company it audits, the auditor's desire to maintain a good relationship with its client could conflict with its duty to rigorously question the client's financial statements.

  Robert Pozen

  Relationship, Desire, Auditors

  "An Intermediate Approach to the Auditor Rotation Issue" by Robert Pozen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.

  Nina Bawden

  People, Safety, Would Be

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• The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

  Antony Beevor

  Understanding, Historian

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• You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.

  Erskine Bowles

  Real, Weakness, Want

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• Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  Gary Bauer

  Law, Judging, Quality

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• I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.

  Nellie Bly

  Girl, Crazy, Poor

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.6, Nellie Bly

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• There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.

  Paul Bremer

  Country, Police, Ifs

  "Interview with Paul Bremer". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. September 24, 2003.

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• I love getting dressed up. Being a pop star is the most brilliant job for that. A lot of girls love shopping, but they might see the most amazing outfit and think, 'When am I going to wear that?', so it's my duty to exploit the fact I do have events I can wear these things to.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Girl, Jobs, Stars

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• I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

  Floyd Abrams

  Loyalty, Causes, Clients

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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• The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Risk

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• You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.

  Wesley Clark

  Believe, Being True

  "60 minutes" with Dan Rather, www.cbsnews.com. November 19, 2003.

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• Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

  Artur Davis

  Compassion, Government, Sound

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• I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Compassion

  "No ordinary Joe" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2007.

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• As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

  Jay Griffiths

  Messengers

  "Call of the wild" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2007.

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• If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

  Kelly Ayotte

  Law, Attorney, Ifs

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• She had a big ole booty, I was doing my duty.

  LL Cool J

  Quality, Booty, Bigs

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