Motherly Duties Quotes & Sayings

The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself. — H. H. Asquith

Six pull-tabs lay in the ashtray like scales from a mermaid. — Haruki Murakami

It's not their fault. It's because they've been taught that 'Work is holy, good and beautiful. It counts above everything else, and the workers alone will inherit the earth.' Only things have been arranged so that they have to spend all their time working and there's no time left for the rest of it to come true. — Boris Vian

People don't just stop playing Facebook games. They divorce them. — Jesse Schell

Lots of people say it's the song. For me, it's not always the song - there's something bigger: the spirit of an artist. — Steve Lillywhite

I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband. We discuss practical problems, but I wouldn't sit down with him and talk about the distant past. It's somewhat in contrast to other Americans, who feel that they have to confess things, but I'm really not like that. — Joyce Carol Oates

Dharma is easiest to spot by its absence: the Mahabharata employs the pedagogical technique of teaching about dharma via its opposite, adharma — Gurcharan Das

A person who refuses to give up will always succeed eventually. — Joyce Meyer

I do like to just have football on, so I will TiVo, like, three or four games for the weekend, and I'll just turn it on when there's no live football on, just to have the background noise. — Christopher Gorham

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one. — Michael Bloomberg

I had started at a small startup as a big-company guy. Now I was leaving a big company as a small-startup guy. — Douglas Edwards

The duty of a man is to be useful to his fellow-men; if possible, to be useful to many of them; failing this, to be useful to a few; failing this, to be useful to his neighbours, and, failing them, to himself: for when he helps others, he advances the general interests of mankind. Just as he who makes himself a worse man does harm not only to himself but to all those to whom he might have done good if he had made himself a better one, so he who deserves well of himself does good to others by the very fact that he is preparing what will be of service to them. — Seneca.

The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck. — Henry David Thoreau

We [Afghanistan government] were in the process of cleaning up the government when these attacks happened in the north - not only in Kunduz, but also in other provinces. Our special forces are limited - we cannot be everywhere at the same time and we had to defend every district regardless of how insignificant it might be, because of the very social and political makeup of this country. — Ashraf Ghani

She cares about fall's magnificence in the rain
The dipping raindrops' dance assigning thence Indicated rhyme that eases her refrain
Before they met - her paces commence. — Victoria Haugnes