duty

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
d2d92df	Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.	integrity marriage feelings self-determination romance joy love matrimony duty	Jane Austen
e2339b9	An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.	enlightenment hermann-hesse duty	Hermann Hesse
47b1dcc	"I don't believe him," said Hermione in a very unsteady voice, the moment they were out of earshot of Hagrid. "I don't believe him. I don't believe him. . . ." "Calm down," said Harry. "Calm down!" she said feverishly. "A giant! A giant in the forest! And we're supposed to give him English lessons! Always assuming, of course, we can get past the herd of murderous centaurs on the way in and out! I -- don't -- -- him!"	humor centaurs duty promises	J.K. Rowling
bc966e4	And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine.	fear difficulty source divorce duty	Anonymous
ed4bb96	"From out of nowhere, Phury felt an overwhelming tide of guilt, like someone had popped the lid off all his deepest concerns and his fears for the future of the race. He had to respond to it, couldn't bear the pressure. Riding the wave, he found himself saying in a rush, "We live and die for our kind. The species is our first and only concern. We fight every night and count the jars of thelessers we kill. Stealth is the way we protect the civilians. The less they know about us, the safer they are. That is why we disappeared."	sacrifice phury secrecy duty	J.R. Ward
4aee80a	We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.	morality self-awareness tragedies duty right-and-wrong	Colleen McCullough
fc4b0fb	Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience.	duty	Jeff Shaara
a3eacc4	One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.	life rodolphe unconventional madame-bovary conventions gustave-flaubert duty society	Gustave Flaubert
67a11fd	Tonight he would do anything in the world for her. Tomorrow he would begin to set her free.	freedom love temporary duty	Mary Balogh
421c020	"This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn't know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you." He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt, for he knew he could never explain exactly why the idea came to him. "It's the painting of a dutiful daughter," he said eventually, looking at her cautiously to see her reaction. "You want to please. You are always aware of what the person looking at this picture will think of it. Because of that you've missed something important. Does that make sense?" She thought, then nodded. "All right," she said grudgingly and with just a touch of despair in her voice. "You win." Julien grunted. "Have another go, then. I shall come back and come back until you figure it out." "And you'll know?" "You'll know. I will merely get the benefit of it."	individuality independence paintings daughters fulfillment skills duty gift expectation perception creativity obedience	Iain Pears
f1c8cbb	It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know?	country principle duty	Zadie Smith
0d5f83a	Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a good number of us, when any line of action will promote our own interest, can make ourselves believe that reasons exist which compel us to it as a duty.	ends interest sardonic duty reasoning purpose self-deception	Elizabeth Gaskell
4020ca4	She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.	duty parents	Jeanette Winterson
9e7ea65	"Surely you can entrust your task to your friends." "No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have taken it on myself through my own choice." "If that is so," answered Medwyn, "then you can give it up through your own choice."	choice medwyn taran duty will	Lloyd Alexander
3770ec8	. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?	fate temptation duty	Donna Tartt
49ee4f9	In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly.	life inspirational duty	Ellis Peters
7660d84	Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?	wife duty	Hilary Mantel
7fa1932	Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything.	hopelessness want hope nursing-home spawning retirement office career duty dying	Donna Tartt
96a54d0	This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a pain at the heart.	duty regret	Victor Hugo
64d73ab	"In Kant's description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject's homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing the subject to act "beyond the pleasure principle," ignoring the pursuit of pleasures. For Lacan, exactly the same description holds for desire, which is why enjoyment is not something that comes naturally to the subject, as a realization of her inner potential, but is the content of a traumatic superego injunction."	happiness duty trauma	Slavoj Žižek
4c08f00	"Lincoln's liberal use of his pardoning power created the greatest tension between the two men (Lincoln and Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War). Stanton felt compelled to protect military discipline by exacting proper punishment for desertions or derelictions of duty, while Lincoln looked for any "good excuse for saving a man's life." When he found one, he said, "I go to bed happy as I think how joyous the signing of my name will make him and his family and his friends." Stanton would not allow himself such leniency. A clerk recalled finding Stanton one night in his office, "the mother, wife, and children of a soldier who had been condemned to be shot as a deserter, on their knees before him pleading for the life of their loved one. He listened standing, in cold and austere silence, and at the end of their heart-breaking sobs and prayers answered briefly that the man must die. The crushed and despairing little family left and Mr. Stanton turned, apparently unmoved, and walked into his private room." The clerk thought Stanton an unfeeling tyrant, until he discovered him moments later, "leaning over a desk, his face buried in his hands and his heavy frame shaking with sobs. 'God help me to do my duty; God help me to do my duty!' he was repeating in a low wail of anguish." On such occasions, when Stanton felt he could not afford to set a precedent, he must have been secretly relieved that the president had the ultimate authority."	edwin-stanton lincoln duty mercy	Doris Kearns Goodwin
e180d6d	Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.	freedom stephen-maturin social-pressure duty obligation	Patrick O'Brian
75ca163	She very much feared that if she stayed with Maximus, this awful taint - this terribly wrong act - would, day by day, year by year, wear at her until she was no more than a ghost of her former self. She saw need when she looked into his eyes, but was there any love as well? Had she discarded Penelope's friendship for a man who didn't, in the end, truly care for her? For she loved him, she realized now, in this brightly lit garden, of all places, with his future wife, her , by her side. She loved Maximus totally and completely, with all of her bitter, broken heart, and she did not know if it was enough for the two of them.	love secret-lovers duty honor	Elizabeth Hoyt
543297e	Warner laces his boots and sings the songs and marches the marches, acting less out of duty than out of a time worn desire to be dutiful.	war werner german duty germany	Anthony Doerr
59846d7	As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.	responsibility freedom reality truth duties duty emancipation end obligation outcome responsibilities sever ties release	Robin Hobb
4d86a6f	He preferred solitary pursuits, and being a member of a group seemed rather dutiful, but he could do dutiful and somebody had to or the world would fall apart.	duty	Kate Atkinson
b3a4710	Your Majesty, I am a soldier, not a statesman; and I have no great philosophy but that I love my country. I came because it was my duty as a Christian and a man; now it is my duty to return.	honesty inspirational duty soldier	Naomi Novik
ca9ebca	"-"Why do men like you do the job you do? It can't be for the medals. And it's certainly not the money." Stone said nothing. -"Why then? God and country?" -"Both simpler and more complex, Mr. President." -"What then?" -"So I can look at myself in the mirror."	duty soldier job	David Baldacci

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

integrity marriage feelings self-determination romance joy love matrimony duty

Jane Austen

e2339b9

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

enlightenment hermann-hesse duty

Hermann Hesse

47b1dcc

"I don't believe him," said Hermione in a very unsteady voice, the moment they were out of earshot of Hagrid. "I don't believe him. I don't believe him. . . ." "Calm down," said Harry. "Calm down!" she said feverishly. "A giant! A giant in the forest! And we're supposed to give him English lessons! Always assuming, of course, we can get past the herd of murderous centaurs on the way in and out! I -- don't -- -- him!"

humor centaurs duty promises

J.K. Rowling

bc966e4

And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine.

fear difficulty source divorce duty

Anonymous

ed4bb96

"From out of nowhere, Phury felt an overwhelming tide of guilt, like someone had popped the lid off all his deepest concerns and his fears for the future of the race. He had to respond to it, couldn't bear the pressure. Riding the wave, he found himself saying in a rush, "We live and die for our kind. The species is our first and only concern. We fight every night and count the jars of thelessers we kill. Stealth is the way we protect the civilians. The less they know about us, the safer they are. That is why we disappeared."

sacrifice phury secrecy duty

J.R. Ward

4aee80a

We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.

morality self-awareness tragedies duty right-and-wrong

Colleen McCullough

fc4b0fb

Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience.

duty

Jeff Shaara

a3eacc4

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

life rodolphe unconventional madame-bovary conventions gustave-flaubert duty society

Gustave Flaubert

67a11fd

Tonight he would do anything in the world for her. Tomorrow he would begin to set her free.

freedom love temporary duty

Mary Balogh

421c020

"This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn't know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you." He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt, for he knew he could never explain exactly why the idea came to him. "It's the painting of a dutiful daughter," he said eventually, looking at her cautiously to see her reaction. "You want to please. You are always aware of what the person looking at this picture will think of it. Because of that you've missed something important. Does that make sense?" She thought, then nodded. "All right," she said grudgingly and with just a touch of despair in her voice. "You win." Julien grunted. "Have another go, then. I shall come back and come back until you figure it out." "And you'll know?" "You'll know. I will merely get the benefit of it."

individuality independence paintings daughters fulfillment skills duty gift expectation perception creativity obedience

Iain Pears

f1c8cbb

It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know?

country principle duty

Zadie Smith

0d5f83a

Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a good number of us, when any line of action will promote our own interest, can make ourselves believe that reasons exist which compel us to it as a duty.

ends interest sardonic duty reasoning purpose self-deception

Elizabeth Gaskell

4020ca4

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.

duty parents

Jeanette Winterson

9e7ea65

"Surely you can entrust your task to your friends." "No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have taken it on myself through my own choice." "If that is so," answered Medwyn, "then you can give it up through your own choice."

choice medwyn taran duty will

Lloyd Alexander

3770ec8

. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

fate temptation duty

Donna Tartt

49ee4f9

In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly.

life inspirational duty

Ellis Peters

7660d84

Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?

wife duty

Hilary Mantel

7fa1932

Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything.

hopelessness want hope nursing-home spawning retirement office career duty dying

Donna Tartt

96a54d0

This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a pain at the heart.

duty regret

Victor Hugo

64d73ab

"In Kant's description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject's homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing the subject to act "beyond the pleasure principle," ignoring the pursuit of pleasures. For Lacan, exactly the same description holds for desire, which is why enjoyment is not something that comes naturally to the subject, as a realization of her inner potential, but is the content of a traumatic superego injunction."

happiness duty trauma

Slavoj Žižek

4c08f00

"Lincoln's liberal use of his pardoning power created the greatest tension between the two men (Lincoln and Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War). Stanton felt compelled to protect military discipline by exacting proper punishment for desertions or derelictions of duty, while Lincoln looked for any "good excuse for saving a man's life." When he found one, he said, "I go to bed happy as I think how joyous the signing of my name will make him and his family and his friends." Stanton would not allow himself such leniency. A clerk recalled finding Stanton one night in his office, "the mother, wife, and children of a soldier who had been condemned to be shot as a deserter, on their knees before him pleading for the life of their loved one. He listened standing, in cold and austere silence, and at the end of their heart-breaking sobs and prayers answered briefly that the man must die. The crushed and despairing little family left and Mr. Stanton turned, apparently unmoved, and walked into his private room." The clerk thought Stanton an unfeeling tyrant, until he discovered him moments later, "leaning over a desk, his face buried in his hands and his heavy frame shaking with sobs. 'God help me to do my duty; God help me to do my duty!' he was repeating in a low wail of anguish." On such occasions, when Stanton felt he could not afford to set a precedent, he must have been secretly relieved that the president had the ultimate authority."

edwin-stanton lincoln duty mercy

Doris Kearns Goodwin

e180d6d

Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.

freedom stephen-maturin social-pressure duty obligation

Patrick O'Brian

75ca163

She very much feared that if she stayed with Maximus, this awful taint - this terribly wrong act - would, day by day, year by year, wear at her until she was no more than a ghost of her former self. She saw need when she looked into his eyes, but was there any love as well? Had she discarded Penelope's friendship for a man who didn't, in the end, truly care for her? For she loved him, she realized now, in this brightly lit garden, of all places, with his future wife, her , by her side. She loved Maximus totally and completely, with all of her bitter, broken heart, and she did not know if it was enough for the two of them.

love secret-lovers duty honor

Elizabeth Hoyt

543297e

Warner laces his boots and sings the songs and marches the marches, acting less out of duty than out of a time worn desire to be dutiful.

war werner german duty germany

Anthony Doerr

59846d7

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

responsibility freedom reality truth duties duty emancipation end obligation outcome responsibilities sever ties release

Robin Hobb

4d86a6f

He preferred solitary pursuits, and being a member of a group seemed rather dutiful, but he could do dutiful and somebody had to or the world would fall apart.

duty

Kate Atkinson

b3a4710

Your Majesty, I am a soldier, not a statesman; and I have no great philosophy but that I love my country. I came because it was my duty as a Christian and a man; now it is my duty to return.

honesty inspirational duty soldier

Naomi Novik

ca9ebca

"-"Why do men like you do the job you do? It can't be for the medals. And it's certainly not the money." Stone said nothing. -"Why then? God and country?" -"Both simpler and more complex, Mr. President." -"What then?" -"So I can look at myself in the mirror."

duty soldier job

David Baldacci