Due Quotes

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. (Hesiod)
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. View quote
Sydney Smith
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. View quote
Robert Frost
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. View quote
Truman Capote
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. View quote
Ernest Renan
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. View quote
Willa Cather
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. View quote
William Howard Taft
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual. View quote
Alexander Fleming
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas. (Edward de Bono)
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. View quote
Vitruvius
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained Those by death are few by resignations, none. Usually quoted Few die and none resign. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. View quote
Martha Gellhorn
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. View quote
Thomas Paine
Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form. View quote
Maimonides
I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions. View quote
Friedrich Hayek
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question. (Arnold J. Toynbee)
Was there nought better than to enjoy No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due No forcing earth teach heaven's employ. View quote
Robert Browning
Our evils are due mainly to the failure to apply to our international relationships knowledge which is of practically universal possession, often self-evident in the facts of daily life and experience. View quote
Norman Angell
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God. View quote
Francis Bacon
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