I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

- Andrew Johnson

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

- Charlotte Bronte

The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.

- David K. E. Bruce

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

- Eduard Shevardnadze

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

- Felix Adler

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

- George Eliot

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

- Hugh Shelton

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

- Henrietta Szold

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

- Nigel Farage

If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.

- Pope Benedict XVI

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

- Sydney Smith