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Quotes About Duty

Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.
~ Julian Baggini
You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
~ Kate Millett
It's not Neom's duty to create jobs for Saudis. Neom's duty is to be a world hub for everyone in the whole world.
~ Mohammad bin Salman
Playing a real-life character is a challenge and a huge responsibility.
~ Ali Fazal
War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.
~ Tim O'Brien
We need to scrap the Human Rights Act and need a balance between rights and responsibilities.
~ Chris Grayling
I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.
~ Joseph Rotblat
I am humbled to have been asked by President-elect Trump to serve as Attorney General of the United States.
~ Jeff Sessions
noblesse oblige
~ Gillian Flynn
Essentially, the mercenary sets morality aside, or at best reorders the customary structures to fit the needs of his way of life. The
~ Glen Cook
Don't you guys ever sleep?" "Sleep? What's that? Wait! Yeah! I remember. They used to let me do that when I was in the army. Once a week whether I needed it or not.
~ Glen Cook
Oh, it's a soldier's life for me. Oh, the adventure and glory! It
~ Glen Cook
SÅ'u?ba u Pani nie byÅ'a zÅ'a. Cho? otrzymywaliÅ›my najci??sze zadania, nigdy nie musieliÅ›my wykonywa? brudnej roboty. To zawsze spadaÅ'o na oddziaÅ'y regularne. Niekiedy, oczywiÅ›cie, uderzenia prewencyjne. Od czasu do czasu masakra. Wszystko jednak w ramach zawodu. Militarna konieczno??. Nigdy nie byliÅ›my zamieszani w szczególne okrucieÅ"stwa. Kapitan by na to nie pozwoliÅ'.
~ Glen Cook
Harriet was put in charge of taking care of her younger brothers and sisters when she was only four years old.
~ Grace Norwich
It was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or a civilization - it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.
~ Graham Greene
Be Disloyal. It's your duty to the human race. The human race needs to survive and it's the loyal man who dies first from anxiety or a bullet or overwork. If you have to earn a living...and the price they make you pay is loyalty, be a double agent--and never let either of the two sides know your real name.
~ Graham Greene
The conditions of writing change absolutely between the first novel and the second: the first is an adventure, the second is a duty. The first is like a sprint which leaves you exhausted and triumphant beside the track. With the second the writer has been transformed into a long-distance runner - the finishing tape is out of sight, at the end of life. He must guard his energies and plan ahead. A long endurance is more exhausting than a sprint, and less heroic.
~ Graham Greene
Is the colonel seriously telling us,' Granger said, 'that he's had time to count the enemy dead and not his own?
~ Graham Greene
Dr Hasselbacher never talked in terms of morality; it was outside the province of a doctor.
~ Graham Greene
Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers – pity lighthouse-keepers – pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon…
~ Graham Swift
Unity! Duty! And destiny!
~ Greg Farshtey
Of course you have. I'm a man, and I respond to all that you are. But I also feel things that a father feels for a daughter. Mainly, I feel very protective of you. And my first duty is to protect you from me.
~ Greg Iles
But inevitably, after all the hardware questions had been answered, Breen would circle down to the question he'd really wanted to ask: What's it like to blow some unsuspecting raghead's shit away from a thousand yards? Carl always answered the same way: I tried not to think about that side of it, sir. It was a job, and I focused on the mechanics of it. Guys like Ray Breen never grasped the true nature of sniping. It was as much about concealment as it was about shooting.
~ Greg Iles
Reikia paleisti. Paleisti tave. Meil? pernelyg dažnai Užkrauna pareig? pasilikti. Pernelyg retai ji b?na Priežastis išeiti. Rašydama Matau tave nupl?kuriuojant? šalin.
~ Gregg Olsen