Duties Quotes

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country.

It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations.

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

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff - like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which I'm very grateful for... I thank him for it regularly.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.

I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months.

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.