#duty

It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill. ↗

— Charles Tupper

#bill #could #discuss #duty #idle

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#fate #jane-eyre #duty

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.) ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#helping-others #latin #self #duty

It’s your duty as my best friend to be outraged with me.” “I’m outraged!” I snarled. “That bastard!” “Thank you,” Andrea said. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#best-friends #kate #duty

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#activism #consent #dissent #duty #protest

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#friends #revenge #duty

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. ↗

— George Washington

#happiness #honor #honor

there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done ↗

— Evan Meekins

#emotion #fantasy #fantasy-fiction #feelings #fiction

Marie, now Mme. Driscoll, turned to Berthe and smiled, as she used to when they were children. Once again, the smile said, Have I done the right thing? Is this what you wanted? Yes, yes, said Berthe silently, but she went on crying. ↗

— Mavis Gallant

#family-love #family

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. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#duty #parents #life