I feel a duty to write because I can write songs.
Justin Hayward
FeelI CanDutyWriteBecauseSongs
My father instilled attention to detail and a sense of duty and responsibility.
Ronnie Corbett
FatherResponsibilityDetailDuty
Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.
Samora Machel
LongCooperationDutyPossibleSeems
Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.
James Wolcott
ChildrenPeopleMeAlcoholDuty
There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.
Mary Lyon
FearUniverseKnowNothingDuty
It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
Randall Terry
PeopleSayingChristianYouDuty
Not every woman has what I have, so if I could do something to help them, that should also be my duty.
Guler Sabanci
WomanHelpDutySomethingIf I Could
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
Michael Morpurgo
FunnyChildrenPetCareDutyOwe
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Saint Augustine
NothingDutyMoreHimWhoEulogy
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
Horatio Nelson
BusinessSeaGreatDutyWayPainful
It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.
Joseph Hume
OpinionLongHouseCountryDuty
We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
Oskar Schindler
ManGuiltDutyResponsibleSoldier
Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty.
Henri La Fontaine
GreatCountryDutySystemSeekHere
As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen.
Jose Rizal
GodWorldSmallMissionDramaDuty
Vampires are handy characters, as they can do double duty as monster/villains and the classic, misunderstood romantic hero.
Nancy A. Collins
HeroRomanticDutyMisunderstood
I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside chat, not a campaign speech - just a little straight talk among friends.
Gerald R. Ford
FeelFriendsSpeechDutyTalkFirst
Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.
Joni Mitchell
PeopleDreamNobodyGoDutySee
There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.
Lafcadio Hearn
FearMenManSuicideDutyOthers
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington
HappinessMoralConnectedDuty
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Douglas MacArthur
GodLightGoodbyeCareerFadeDuty
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
Ian Mcewan
ImportantDutyResistanceFirst
Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.
Fritz Kreisler
DayWifeMeColorsDutySwitzerland
I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.
Chloe Grace Moretz
DayDutyOne DayBeatModernCall
The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as it will lead to increase in cost of power generation.
Gautam Adani
PowerImpactGenerationDutyWill
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