Duty Quotes - Page 39

• I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

  Floyd Abrams

  Loyalty, Causes, Clients

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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• You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.

  Wesley Clark

  Believe, Being True

  "60 minutes" with Dan Rather, www.cbsnews.com. November 19, 2003.

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• Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

  Artur Davis

  Compassion, Government, Sound

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• If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

  Kelly Ayotte

  Law, Attorney, Ifs

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• She had a big ole booty, I was doing my duty.

  LL Cool J

  Quality, Booty, Bigs

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• The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.

  Verity Stob

  Errors, Mind, Lap

  "Catch as Catch Can". www.theregister.co.uk. January 11, 2006.

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• It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Selfish, Mean, Men

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• Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.

  Robert Palmer

  Kings, Fighting, Politics

  Song: Every Kinda People, Album: Double Fun

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• When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in the Bible. I disagree with that notion, so in my estimation, we've all been put on this planet to share it. It is our duty and our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that we've done so in the proper fashion.

  Corey Feldman

  Fashion, Responsibility, Thinking

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• We all have the duty to do good.

  Pope Francis

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• Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

  Miep Gies

  Losing, Opinion, Failing

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• We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Loyalty, Mother, Children

  "I will be judged by the critical lens of history: Pranab Mukherjee". www.indiablooms.com. July 24, 2017.

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• I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.

  Alexei Navalny

  Country, Party, Thinking

  "Net Impact". Interview with Julia Ioffe, www.newyorker.com. April 4, 2011.

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• This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

  Franz Kafka

  Health, Ifs, Oneself

  Franz Kafka “1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”

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• I have come to light the lamp of Love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster. I have not come on behalf of any exclusive religion. I have not come on a mission of publicity for a sect or creed or cause, nor have I come to collect followers for a doctrine. I have no plan to attract disciples or devotees into my fold or any fold. I have come to tell you of this unitary faith, this spiritual principle, this path of Love, this virtue of Love, this duty of Love, this obligation of Love.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love, Spiritual, Heart

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jun 29, 2013

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• There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists.

  Hugo Pratt

  Artist, Hands, People

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• My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Country, Vision, Independence

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• The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

  Fiona Shaw

  Democracies Have, Rights, Democracy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Artist, World, Problem

  "The Culturepulp Q&a: 'persepolis' Creator Marjane Satrapi". Interview with Mike Russell, culturepulp.typepad.com. January 25, 2008.

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• The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Honor, Democracy, Privilege

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• Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.

  Guy Verhofstadt

  Brother, Order, Suffering

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• Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.

  Adam Michnik

  America, Giving, Loyal

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• Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

  Bob McDonnell

  Doctors, Practice, Care

  "McDonnell Talks Super Tuesday". Interview with Jim Geraghty, www.nationalreview.com. March 5, 2012.

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• I actually don't play any new video games except 'Call of Duty.' I'm addicted to 'Call of Duty.' It's the only game I need.

  Deron Williams

  Games, Play, Needs

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• Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

  Mark Twain

  Preacher, Company, Pleasant

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.303, Univ of California Press

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