Quotes of: Jury-duty Keyword

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Rutherford B. Hayes

I can't get enough of 'Call of Duty.' I'm the oldest guy who plays on PlayStation.

Steve Jones

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

Samantha Morton

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Kate DiCamillo

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

Mortimer Adler

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Saint Augustine

Fear is never a good counselor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

Seamus Heaney

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

Zell Miller

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Horatio Nelson

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

Arthur Capper

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.

Mark Burnett

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

Marquis de Lafayette

It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.

Simon Cowell

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

Theresa May

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Herbert Spencer

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Anne Baxter

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

George Santayana

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.

Nathan Hale

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

Simon Cowell