Jonathan Swift Quotes
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
Candace Bushnell -
I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.
Rachel Hunter -
It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
Nathan Hale -
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
Hannah More -
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
Eamon de Valera -
There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.
Jack Whitehall -
I think Hillary is going to be more hawkish perhaps than Obama. Perhaps more hawkish than Trump. Trump, though, is really a windshield wiper. He says one thing that makes sense and then says something that doesn't make sense.
Gary Johnson -
May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
Albert Einstein -
I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
Albert Einstein -
Great things are wrought through simple and small things. Like the small flecks of gold that accumulate over time into a large treasure, our small and simple acts of kindness and service will accumulate into a life filled with love for Heavenly Father, devotion to the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a sense of peace and joy each time we reach out to one another.
M. Russell Ballard
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Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.
Vaclav Havel -
You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.
Yvon Chouinard -
Children who are accustomed to being treated well internalize that treatment and have a permanent sense of well-being. But children whose every need is instantly gratified and who are constantly praised to the skies do not have the same sense of well-being; rather they may feel despair or rage when that gratification is withheld, or when everyone doesn't glorify them in the same way.
Victoria Secunda -
Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
Oscar Wilde -
I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.
Benigno Aquino III -
Love is the only duty that we know.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty.
E. W. Howe -
I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
Albert Einstein -
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
Wassily Kandinsky -
We have an intuitive sense of our duty.
Jonathan Swift