Quotes of: Jury-duty Keyword

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

Arabella Weir

The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.

Vicente Fox

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

Victor Hugo

I like to be able to raise people's consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty.

Wes Studi

In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual.

Wole Soyinka

Whenever there's heavy-duty emotional work to be done, they call me. As for playing the completely off-the-wall, sexy, gorgeous lady that I am - no, they don't think of me.

Bonnie Bedelia

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.

Charles Mackay

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused.

Fritz Kreisler

The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generati...

Starship Troopers

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it...

The present aspect of slavery in America and the immediate duty of the North: a speech delivered in the hall of the State house, before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Convention, on Friday night, January 29, 1858

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. The...

Barack Obama

Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

Disgrace

No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.

On Duties

Love grows and wanes, but honor, duty, and commitment, those things are constant and stable. They define who you are.

Eena, The Return of a Queen

Duty and honor are oft enough realm only for those with security to afford them.

At Faith's End

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

The Final Empire

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.

Freedom

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

Golden Fool

It's his duty. A good healer can't pick and choose. If he can help, then he must.

The Golem and the Jinni

Because it’s our duty to God to protect the rest of humanity from evil creatures of the night.

Blood Promise