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“In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant.”

World Sometimes Names Violence Duty Messages Hatred Significant Vengeance Timely

Author:Pope John Paul II

“I'm a shy guy... I don't enjoy being bothered but I never say no to a fan. I say yes to everybody... even though sometimes you have some days where you don't feel like it, but it's your duty as athlete to do it. Because the fans that pay it's going to make you live, so you have to do it. So I force myself to do it all the time.”

Feels Sometimes Guy Force Enjoy Pay Fans Duty Athlete Shy Mma Bothered Shy Guy

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.”

Men Self Sometimes Form Class Sacrifice Objects Duty Eternal Villain Heroism Nevertheless Lowest Scorn Impressive Grandeur Self Sacrifice Ascent

Book:De Quincey's works

Source: De Quincey's works

“I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.”

People Thinking Children Two Sometimes Duty Protect Married Madness Relation Saved Bores Love Each Other Away From Each Other

Book:Short stories

Source: Short stories

“When we have sampled much and have wandered far and have seen how fleeting and sometimes superficial a lot of the world is, our gratitude grows for the privilege of being part of something we can count on-home and family and the loyalty of loved ones. We come to know what it means to be bound together by duty, by respect, by belonging. We learn that nothing can fully take the place of the blessed relationship of family life.”

Knows World Mean Sometimes Home Together Grows Duty Gratitude Blessed Bounds Privilege Loyalty Belonging Loved Ones Superficial Fleeting Family Life Home And Family

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.”

Feels Wells Sometimes Seems Faces Work Doubt Duty Conscience Profound Satisfaction Following Superiors Emptiness Midst Spontaneous Obeying Ennui Sneer Fatality

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.”

Doe Sometimes Suffering Duty

Book:Outlines of Theology

Source: Outlines of Theology

“sometimes duties act on the soul like weeds on a flower. They crowd it out.”

Soul Sometimes Flower Duty Crowds Weed

Book:A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader

Source: A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader

“Initially, I felt like my duty was to just keep it positive and be positive and sometimes I crack in that. We're human. I'm imperfect at times and that was just me being imperfect at that one point.”

Humans Sometimes Felt Duty Cracks Imperfect Being Positive Being Imperfect

Author:Wale

“In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.”

Knows Sometimes Hard Difficult Practice Duty Obligation

Book:The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The notebooks of Samuel Butler

“Good stewardship of the environment is not just a personal responsibility, it is a public value... Our duty is to use the land well, and sometimes not to use it at all. This is our responsibility as citizens, but more than that, it is our calling as stewards of the earth.”

Wells Sometimes Use Earth Values Responsibility Environment Land Duty Citizens Calling Stewardship Personal Responsibility Stewards

Author:George W. Bush

“Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.”

Want Sometimes Character Stories Motivation Emotion Duty Storyteller

Author:Hugh Jackman

“The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.”

Sometimes Objects Duty Advantage Speed Journalist Accuracy

Author:George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

“It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?”

Ifs Sometimes Duty Rough

Author:Norman Schwarzkopf

“Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers, which sometimes forecloses their unique modernism and experience of modernization in favor of a mythic past or an artificially constructed ideal national subject. So likewise in João Gilberto Noll, readers shouldn't expect samba and Carnival and football. The Brazilian national identity is not one of his primary concerns.”

Sometimes Past Understanding Identity Football Duty Authority Unique Concern Complaining Latin Modernism Latin America American Writer

Author:Adam Morris

“Regardless of how you feel about war and peace those serving military are doing a duty for the rest of us and they're protecting a way of life that they sometimes come back to and it's not close to them.”

War Sometimes Military Duty

Author:Linda Cardellini

“It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.”

Thinking Ideas Sometimes Duty Dignity Importance Good Ideas Tiresome Valuation

Book:Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks

Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks

“Vladimir did great things—so could she. Besides, they come first, right?" "Not always." I stared. I'd had they come first drilled into me since I was a child. It was what all guardians believed. Only the dhampirs who'd run away from their duty didn't subscribe to that. What he said was almost like treason. "Sometimes, Rose, you have to know when to put yourself first.”

Knows Firsts Children Said Sometimes Running Duty Rose Great Things Running Away Guardian Treason Put Yourself First

Book:Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel

Source: Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel

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