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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• 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.

  

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• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• 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
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• 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.

  

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

  

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• I had this dream...that we had this new sixth member, for some reason, and he actually ended up being quite horrible! And he started a fight with me! And I wanted him to go away and none of the boys were helping me!

  

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• A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.

  

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• There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.

  

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• I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.

  

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• You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

  

  Stephen Fry
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• ...and the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon a succession of balconies a succession of libertines, sparkling glass in hand, toasted the bliss of past and future nights.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
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• Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• 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