Dignities And Duties Quotes & Sayings

The underlying morality of society is getting worse because we have literally transferred our God-given power to the politician (Man's government). — Michael DeLance Thomas

For the time being
Words scatter
Are they fallen leaves? — Ruth Ozeki

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory
an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother. — Mark Twain

She'd used the treasure hunt to take me on a tour of all my infidelities. — Gillian Flynn

In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness. — Marion Bailey

Fate determines a man's beginning. The man, by choice, determines his end. — Ogwo David Emenike

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars. — Jodi Picoult

Begin each new day with your knees bow in prayer. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat. — Thomas Browne

Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context, it is not just freedom, democracy, and equality that are at stake, but the survival of billions of humans and of whole ecosystems. — Richard Heinberg