“Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they died from too few. I'm not suggesting that the teachers should have carried guns not as franchised agents of the state. They should have carried guns as ordinary individuals, exercising a sacred right, and in performance of a solemn duty to protect the young lives that were placed very foolishly, as it turned out in their hands.” ShouldStatesHandsKidsYoungDiesIndividualClearTeacherDutyExerciseProtectOrdinaryGunShould HavePerformancesDiedSacredAgentsSolemnSuggestingBulbsColumbineYoung Life Author:L. Neil Smith
“I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.” FeelsWritingHumansStillsLyingCan DoHuman BeingsWonderfulPoetDutyOrdinaryWonderful Things Author:Gwendolyn Brooks
“The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty.” MeanLawLevelsDutyPleaseOrdinaryEssenceConstitutionSuperiorsDepartmentLegislatureProvincesJudicialParamountUnchangeable Author:John Marshall
“In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message.” FirstsViewsCommonCasesDoubtHonestDutyMessagesOrdinaryObservationDishonestyDeliberationBalaam Book:The Whole Works of Joseph Butler ... Source: The Whole Works of Joseph Butler ...
“Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.” HumansPersonsPastFacesIndividualHuman BeingsSituationNovelProgressDangerDutyOrdinaryRateFixedLengthParallelsLength Of Life Book:Science and the Modern World Source: Science and the Modern World
“When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the mind had an upper and lower story and the regular performance of the day's duties moved and motivated on the upper floor, while down below the all-absorbing problem toils silently, forcefully, toward its solution.” IfsMindStoriesProblemDutyEgoSolutionsOrdinaryPerformancesMovedWork OutMotivatedRoutineProblem SolvingToilDualityAbsorbing Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.” ShareDutyOughtBenefitsOrdinaryFairsWorkersProsperityProducersConsumersEvidentFair Share Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“It is our duty to give support to the brother leader ... especially in regards to the sanctions which are not hitting just him, they are hitting the ordinary masses of the people ... our African brothers and sisters.” PeopleGivingLeaderSupportBrotherDutyMassOrdinaryRegardHittingBrothers And SistersSanctions Author:Nelson Mandela
“The effectiveness of an inspired bishop, adviser, or teacher has very little to do with the outward trappings of power or an abundance of this world's goods. The leaders who have the most influence are usually those who set hearts afire with devotion to the truth, who make obedience to duty seem the essence of manhood, who transform some ordinary routine occurrence so that it becomes a vista where we see the person we aspire to be.” WorldHeartLittlesPersonsSeemsLeaderTeacherInfluenceThis WorldDutyOrdinaryEssenceInspiredDevotionObedienceAbundanceGoodsRoutineAspireManhoodEffectivenessBishopsAdviserVistas Author:Thomas S. Monson
“Not that I've always agreed with what she said - far from it - but Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has been properly lauded, in my view, as a judge who approached her duties with open-mindedness and with a sensitivity that affects her decisions would have on everyday, ordinary people.” PeopleHas BeensSaidJusticeDecisionViewsJudgingDutyOrdinaryEverydaySensitivityOrdinary PeopleOpen MindednessSandra Day O Connor Author:Joe Biden
“I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.” ThinkingStatesAsksDutyCitizensOrdinaryToughPatrioticSecretaryOrdinary CitizensTough Questions Author:Madeleine Albright
“There is all the difference in the world between the nonviolence that the ordinary Christian should embrace and the duty of civic authorities to police their communities. The end of Romans 12 is quite clear about the first; the start of Romans 13 is quite clear about the second.” WorldShouldFirstsEndsChristianCommunityDifferencesClearDutyAuthorityOrdinaryPoliceEmbraceNonviolenceCivicsRomans 12 Author:N. T. Wright