Washington Gladden Quotes

When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it.

Washington Gladden

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• We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.

  

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• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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  • Tourism

• So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
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• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
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• As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

  

  K. D. Lang
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  • Song
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• It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Government
  • Duty
  • Her

• The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Life
  • Duty
  • Independence

• Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Way
  • Reason

• Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Reason
  • Mad
  • Rage

• Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
  • Reason
  • Fact

• 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
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Worry

• The Italians must allow us to slaughter the Momands, because, if we do not kill the warlike hillmen, they will kill us. And we must allow the Italians to slaughter the Danakils for the same reason.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Reason
  • Kill
  • Warlike

• Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.

  

  Epictetus
  • Reason
  • Shape
  • Disorder

• The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm out. There are people who devote their lives to taking away the rights of gays and lesbians, and I think that visibility is very important. I'm trying to encourage more people to come out, and show everyone who they are, because it's harder to take away the rights of a human being. And this is a miracle state, because we can get married. And I think that these people working to take away our rights are going to lose, because of this generation.

  

  Anthony Rapp
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

  

  John Travolta
  • Life
  • Real
  • Why

• Jealous?" "Maybe." "No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Reason
  • Jealous
  • Ladies

• I've helped bring him home a few titles. There is no reason to get nervous. It's a long season, these things are a matter of patience.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Home
  • Reason
  • Nervous

• One of the reasons so many singles are dissatisfied is that they're looking for a change in status to define their significance, rather than finding a purpose in life, granted by God, that gives them significance regardless of the status they're in.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Reason
  • Findings
  • Granted

• I've accepted that we've all got crap to deal with and problems that we're fighting not to be defined by. At the end of the day, we all want the same stuff: fulfillment, love, support, comfort, and a hot-air balloon with laser guns attached to it. The most important thing is that we appreciate the crazy ride we're on.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Important
  • Love
  • Support

• We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Poetry
  • Ability
  • Modern

• I'm really just expressing myself in every different stage of my life.

  

  LeToya Luckett Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • Different
  • Stage

• When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it.

  

  Washington Gladden
  • Reason
  • Duty
  • Fortunate