Two best friends traveled from the Burdekin in North Queensland sometime in the 1960s and walked into the Union and fell in love with Grace. Tom finch was the smarter talker of the two and won first round, marrying her before his name came up in the lottery sending him to Vietnam on a tour of duty. He never returned. The heartbroken, patient one, Bill Mackee, grieved a best friend and married the love of his life, adopting the twins when they were four years old. - Melina Marchetta ... I thought that because my father was military, I was, too... I'd treated my life there... like a tour of duty, and... the only reason I was leaving was that my year was up. - Leah Stewart

The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all. - J R R Tolkien Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner. - Joseph Addison He feared that principle, active principle, had been wanting; that they had never been properly taught to govern their inclinations and tempers by that sense of duty which can alone suffice. They had been instructed theoretically in their religion, but never required to bring it into daily practice. - Jane Austen Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. - Simone De Beauvoir My mother's studies stopped with the third year of p...

Never forgive, never forget. Do it once and do it right. You reap what you sow. Plans go to hell as soon as the first shot is fired. Protect and serve. Never off duty. - Lee Child Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get. - Barbara Boxer What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father's arms Where is the equivalence - Linda Grant

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races. - Dan Castellaneta When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. - Norm Crosby Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races. - Homer Raise your hand if you had no idea you'd see so much nudity in one week of jury duty. Twelve hands flew straight into the air. And unbelievably, Payton laughed. - Julie James To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph. - John Mortimer Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago. - Liam Neeson Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty. - P J Orourke I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write. - David O Russell The great thing about our system of democracy...

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil. - William Godwin We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral. - James Larkin

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent. - Bob Black Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money. - Alain De Botton Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. - Norman Douglas The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does. - Tom G Palmer

Since Stark had come back from the Otherworld, he'd been too weak and out of it to do much more than eat, sleep, and play computer games with Seoras, which was actually a super weird sight, it was like high school meets Braveheart meets Call of Duty. - P C Cast Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say... Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. - Brian Jacques I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty. - Chloe Moretz I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day. - Chloe Moretz What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this. - Trent Reznor I got to do something I never do, which is go to Starbucks and read 'The New York Times' until 7 a.m. I took m...