due Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about due.
“It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.”
- Martha Gellhorn
“History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.”
- Michael K. Simpson
“Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.”
- Simone Weil
“The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.”
- Queen Elizabeth II
“The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.”
- Orville Wright
“Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.”
- Dan Quayle
“When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.”
- Wietse Venema
“My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.”
- Chiang Kai-shek
“We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.”
- John B. S. Haldane
“An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.”
- Gita, Bhagavad