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Quotes About Duty

As youngest boy in service, the worst jobs fell to him, and this would
~ Robert Silverberg
She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?
~ L.M. Montgomery
Well, one must be a slave to something in this kind of a world,' he said.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty, Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty. -WHITTIER
~ L.M. Montgomery
What I want is a housekeeper. If I shaved every Sunday and went to church I'd get all the housekeepers I'd want. I'd be respectable then. But what's the use of going to church when it's all settled by predestination? Tell me that, Miss.
~ L.M. Montgomery
We are all servants of some sort, and if the fact that we are faithful can be truthfully inscribed on our tombstones, nothing more need be added.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Anne went back to Green Gables by way of the Birth Path, shadowy, rustling, fern-scented, through Violet Vale and past Willowmere, where dark and light kissed each other under the firs, and down through Lovers' Lane ... spots she and Diana had so named long ago. She walked slowly enjoying the sweetness of wood and field, and the starry summer twilight, and thinking soberly about the new duties she was to take up on the morrow.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Clara said. "Do your best, if you happen to love a fool. You'll have my sympathy. Some folks will preach that it's a woman's duty never to quit, once you make a bond with a man. I say that's folly. A bond has to work two ways. If a man don't hold up his end, there comes a time to quit.
~ Larry McMurtry
I'll be a little riled if I end up being the one to die in the line of duty, because this ain't my duty and it ain't yours, either. This is just fortune hunting." "Well, we wasn't finding one
~ Larry McMurtry
JOSH DEETS SERVED WITH ME 30 YEARS. FOUGHT IN 21 ENGAGEMENTS WITH THE COMMANCHE AND KIOWA. CHERFUL IN ALL WEATHERS, NEVER SHERKED A TASK. SPLENDID BEHAVIOUR.
~ Larry McMurtry
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. - Mark Twain
~ Larry Niven
Sabes muy bien que por ser la más chica de las mujeres a ti te corresponde cuidarme hasta el día de mi muerte. Dicho
~ Laura Esquivel
Si primero es lo primero, el amor va antes que nada. Y si primero es el deber y luego el placer, amar es nuestro deber y placer. No hay nada antes ni más allá que el amor.
~ Laura Esquivel
A good horseman always takes care of his horses before he eats or rests.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I'm not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. -Edward
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Edward leaned close and whispered in my ear so that Olaf would think he was whispering sweet nothings, but what he what he actually said, was, We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
There are some things that are more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror. I gave up my gun for the same reason I'd stopped for the child. There was no choice. I was one of the good guys. Good guys were self-sacrificing. It was a rule somewhere.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I'm your bodyguard. If you die under my protection, the other bodyguards will make fun of me.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Shaw mi squadrò da capo a piedi. "Davvero sei tanto brava a uccidere?" "Cerco di essere un bravo sbirro, cerco di essere un bravo soldatino e di obbedire agli ordini, fino a un certo punto. Alla fine però non sono un vero sbirro né un vero soldato. Sono un'assassina legalmente autorizzata. Sono la Sterminatrice.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
We were U.S. Marshals. We hunted and killed the monsters. We did not run from them
~ Laurell K. Hamilton.
Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Most life is spent doing things we don't want to do.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson