Duty quotes - page 11

I saw my role as prime minister\'s wife as being human towards other humans and not treating them badly.
I saw my role as prime minister's wife as being human towards other humans and not treating them badly.
 Margaret Whitlam
Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.
 Garry Trudeau
I find myself more and more interested only in roles which move the world forward.
 Maggie Gyllenhaal
Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
 William Osler
I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well, but is intensely rewarding. Particularly the chance to help draw out the best in young actors.
Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.
 Frances Power Cobbe
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
 Noah Webster
If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.
Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal.
 Noel Tichy
I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow.
I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow.
 Paula Broadwell
Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
 Hamid Karzai
In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
 J. L. Austin
Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
 Bill Murray
The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain.
Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.
 Feisal Abdul Rauf
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
 Rahm Emanuel
The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions.
You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.
 Mariska Hargitay
When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.
When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.
I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
 Larry Wall