The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
I love 'Call of Duty;' I'm a huge fan, but I started off with 'Medal of Honor' and I stuck with what I knew. I never got into the online play with people, across the world, across the country.
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.
I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.
As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.
For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.
A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.
Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.
I'm a gamer, so I play '2k,' 'Call of Duty,' and 'Madden.' I think I can play those games every day.
The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State.
And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.
It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
Congress, of course, is not bound to accept the president's budget figures, but the House has the sole power to appropriate funds for spending, and it is a duty that should not be ignored.
Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents' life? Who owns your life?
I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.