A writer’s duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

As a people, we have wrestled with Vietnam’s legacy for many years, as was and is our duty. Now we want to remind ourselves of what we have done right. Our involvement in World War II was us doing right.

Service is your only duty.

This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one’s duty to do, one feels something which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a pain at the...

There’s no substitute for these (Reserve and active-duty troops) training alongside each other,

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

Death is lighter than a feather, but Duty is heavier than a mountain.

If you boys… you men can do what has to be done when you’d rather do almost anything else, why do you think I will do less? Or Egwene

Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness.

Duty doesn’t always fit comfortably.

My God! My God! Why hast thou forsaken me?We have found that man must depend on himself. He must clear the land; he must build the home; he must plow and plant; he must invent; he must work with hand and brain; he must overcome the difficulties and obstructions; he must conquer and enslave the...

A woman keeps to home and family, and tends to matters inside the home. A man keeps to war games and tends to matters outside.”A queen tends to both, I wanted to say, but did not. She would not understand.

I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology. In a world of limited resources, we have a larger duty to a 10-year-old than to a 90-year-old.

Each shift is assigned a training topic and the training is then conducted while on-duty.

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.

I didn’t grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

…so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm – might even be a patriotic duty.

People are attracted more towards bad things because being good has been turned into a boring duty. No adrenaline & dopamine rush, no rewards!

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.

I don’t see why you two can’t get along.””It is a personality issue,” Rathenridge muttered.Dentin looked at him. No emotion, no reaction, simply bland observation. “Yours?

And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.

I tried to establish order over the chaos of my imagination, but this essence, the same that presented itself to me still hazily when I was a child, has always struck me as the very heart of truth. It is our duty to set ourselves an end beyond our individual concerns, beyond our convenient, agreeable...

Most of us don’t mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn’t interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

Love can do much, but duty more.

I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness...

Uniqueness isn’t a virtue. It’s a responsibility.

Working hard is a fool’s anthem, getting others to work for you is the motto for every successful man.

Do something everyday that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

You can always tell duty. It’s what you don’t want to do–it’s what you fight against inside you. Duty’s when you realize how it’ll hurt other people and you choose between that and what would be easiest for you.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

…love grown dutiful is love grown olda withered cupid faltering at the bow…

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience.

It is the duty of the government to provide security for the judicial system while at the same time respecting its independence,

When you are given a duty, you must honour responsibility.

Man’s inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man. The love of God means wasted love. ‘For God and Country’ means a divided allegiance—a 50 per cent patriot.The most abused word in the language of man is the word ‘God.’ The reason for this is...

He assigned me to a certain duty to look for a clearing while he was trying to get the engine power which for a few minutes the power went up again.

It’s your duty when any witness testifies to decide if they’re credible.

If that lawyer believes that this DA engaged in this conduct then she has a duty to report it.

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.

Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country. But we will not clarify or explain what we do or do not possess.

Non servirò ciò in cui non credo più, si chiami questo la casa, la patria o la Chiesa: e tenterò di esprimere me stesso in un qualunque modo di vita o di arte quanto più potrò liberamente e integralmente, adoperando per difendermi le sole armi che mi concedo di usare: il silenzio, l’esilio e l’astuzia.

When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.

Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

The only thing that feels right is as wrong as it can get

Dharma – the foundation of all human goals be,Refers to obligations, conduct, moral duties;- 25 –