Quotes About Duty
Karen, you fuck up and I get sent to White Fang, Alaska as resident agent . . .
~ Elmore Leonard
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He made me understand that there could be no release from their service until the day I died. He explained, Your father gave it to you as his inheritance, and you will pass it onto your children. They will curse you, but our long arm will reach them nevertheless, generation after generation.
~ Emile Habiby
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En sonra, birinci savaÅŸ konseyini, bir san??a gizli kalan bir belgeye dayanarak hüküm giydirdiÄŸi için hukuku çiÄŸnemekle suçluyorum. İkinci savaÅŸ konseyini de üstten gelen emre uyarak, bir suçluyu, suçunu bile bile temize ç?kar?p a??r adli suç iÅŸlemekle, böylece birinci konseyin yasaya ayk?r? davran???n? örtbas etmekle suçluyorum.
~ Émile Zola
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And what great thing have you done? asked the peasant. We? Oh, nothing. Then to the oven! he replied. The
~ Emilia Pardo Bazán
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
~ Emily Bronte
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You talk of her mind being unsettled. How the devil could it be otherwise in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from duty and humanity ! From pity and charity ! He might as well plant an oak in a flower-pot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
~ Emily Bronte
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People who do their duty are always finally rewarded.
~ Emily Bronte
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I mun hev' my wage, and I mun goa! I hed aimed to dee wheare I'd sarved fur sixty year;
~ Emily Bronte
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Joseph, hazte cargo del caballo del señor Lockwood; y sube vino. «Supongo que la plantilla de empleados domésticos se reduce a uno —pensé al oír aquella orden múltiple—. No es de extrañar que la hierba crezca entre los adoquines y que el ganado sea el único que poda los setos.»
~ Emily Bronte
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The two new friends established themselves in the house during his absence; where I heard Hareton sternly check his cousin, on her offering a revelation of her father-in-law's conduct to his father. He said he wouldn't suffer a word to be uttered in his disparagement: if he were the devil, it didn't signify; he would stand by him; and he'd rather she would abuse himself, as she used to, than begin on Mr. Heathcliff.
~ Emily Bronte
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I went about my house hold duties, convinced that the Grange had but one sensible soul in its walls, and that lodged in my body.
~ Emily Bronte
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Forbidden fruit a flavor has That lawful orchards mocks ; How luscious lies the pea within The pod that Duty locks !
~ Emily Dickinson
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You may attack royalty, or deny its will, but you must never, never ignore it
~ Emma Bull
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I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents? Steppa laughs. Folks with other things to do?
~ Emma Donoghue
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And then I woke— Then I woke up— I woke, and found that life was duty.
~ Emma Donoghue
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The awful waste that patriotism necessitates ought to be sufficient to cure the man of even average intelligence from this disease. Yet patriotism demands still more. The people are urged to be patriotic and for that luxury they pay, not only by supporting their defenders, but even by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegiance to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.
~ Emma Goldman
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It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.
~ Emmet Fox
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it is you will insist that she does her duty byher
~ Enid Blyton
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as head-girl of the form, and
~ Enid Blyton
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Anything else, Butler? The cosh, sir.
~ Eoin Colfer
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This is the only way. I will not allow humans or fairies to die when I might have prevented it." Butler would not give up. "Listen to yourself. You sound like a... like a good guy! There's nothing in this for you.
~ Eoin Colfer
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I know what the Book says," snapped Root. "I just wish you weren't so gung ho about it. If I didn't know you better, I'd say there was some human blood in you." "There's no call for that," pouted Cudgeon. "I'm only doing my job." "Point taken," conceded the commander. "I'm sorry." You didn't often hear Root apologizing, but then it had been a deeply offensive insult.
~ Eoin Colfer
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Spider-Man's Uncle Ben said it better: With great power comes great responsibility.
~ Eoin Colfer
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Butler tilted the clone's head back, pinched its nose
~ Eoin Colfer
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