Quotes & Sayings About Dereliction Of Duty

Cowardly isn't a dereliction of duty, but rather a part of our humanity. However, only the brave ones are known for their humanity. — Melody Manful

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board — D.H. Lawrence

You shouldn't trust me. But you shouldn't trust anyone else here either. Every smile, every kind word - every cookie - it's all done with one goal. And that's a dead princess. — Danielle Paige

Don't you understand that?" "I understand that you're a goddamned hypocrite." "I — Harper Lee

I'm the biggest nerd you'd want to meet. There are bigger, but you don't want to meet them. — Mark Rude

there are times when no one is right, and sometimes among family and children, no one can admit that there is no right, and that maybe at the same time there is no wrong. But in this case I was wrong and I appreciate Vivian Baxter for being big enough to accept my apology. — Maya Angelou

We're what we repeatedly do. — Aristotle.

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty. — Deborah Harkness

There are numerous studies looking at people that won the lottery and their happiness levels. After six to 12 months, most lottery winners are about as happy or unhappy as they were before winning. Likewise, those who suffer crippling accidents return near to their previous levels of happiness in a similar time frame. What determines our happiness is more choice than circumstances, more skill than luck. — Douglas A. Smith

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty. — Jerry A. Coyne

My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out. — Ruth Westheimer

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction. — Mahatma Gandhi

So the captain, the first officer and the ship's doctor and sometimes the engineer all beam down to a planet. Together."
"The entire complement of the senior officers?"
Billy nodded
"And who has the command of the ship?"
"I don't know. Junior officers I guess."
"If they worked for me I would have them court-martialed. That sounds like a dereliction of duty."
"I know. I know. I always thought it odd myself. But that's not the point."
"What is the point?"
"They're usually accompanied by a guy in the red shirt. Always a crew member you've never seen before. And as soon as you see the shirt, you know he's going to die. — Michael Scott

There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family. — Brian Cox

Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

For as I sit there, in pain, I suddenly notice I have changed. I am not self-loathing anymore. These billion cheap blackbirds inside me - beaking the wires of the cage, frantic - are now on the ground, sleeping. This billion eyed mess, which I cannot comprehend, contain or name, has now disappeared - replaced by these hot, red lines on my leg and arm. — Caitlin Moran

Publishing has no onus to be representative, but a fourth of America lives in conditions close to or below the poverty line. Think about the last time you read a novel in which someone went to cash a benefit check or paid for food in food stamps, or got off a double-shift at a retail store and were having their home or car repossessed. These are the conditions in which much of this country lives and it is a dereliction of capability (not duty) to ignore it in literature. — John Freeman

There don't have to be first dates and second dates. We're not normal. We can do this anyway you want. A relationship can be whatever you want it to be. We get to make this part up. We get to tell our own story. — Holly Black

To say that he was not startled, or that his blood was not conscious of a terrible sensation to which it had been a stranger from infancy, would be untrue. — Charles Dickens

How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes. — John Irving

Not so her eyes, which were the flat hostile blue of a midsummer sky in bright sunlight, a blue that shuts you out. — Margaret Atwood

Corruption is knowing when something is not being done, knowing when the American people are being left unprotected and when you make a decision not to do something to protect the American people And you effectively allow 9/11 to occur. That is the ultimate form of government corruption-dereliction of duty. That's subject in the military to prosecution, to court martial. Frankly, if not treason. — Robert Wright

PSA37.23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. PSA37.24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand. — Anonymous