Quotes with duty-first

Quotes 681 till 700 of 1725.

  • Nikola Tesla In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Simon Hoggart In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
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  • Ferdinand Foch In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
    Ferdinand Foch
    French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland (1851 - 1929)
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  • Alexander Pope In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Ben Nighthorse Campbell Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.
    Ben Nighthorse Campbell
    American Cheyenne politician (1933 - )
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  • Charles Simmons Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • A. N. Wilson IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Ann Coulter Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Is Duran's 'No Mas' a more defining moment in his career than his victory over Sugar Ray Leonard in their first fight? For many, it is.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Khaled Hosseini It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Ben Casnocha It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Harold Macmillan It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • A. Benson Cannon It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.
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  • Anthony de Mello It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Bainbridge Colby It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Ban Ki-moon It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Sir Richard Steele It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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