Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Mohandas Gandhi

Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could... over 15,000 kids chanting.
Bobby Hatfield

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.
Cy Coleman

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.
Moses Mendelssohn

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
Alfred Hitchcock

Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres.
Timothy West

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Marcus Aurelius

The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.
Susan Davis

The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as well as assist in reducing the cost incurred by the Federal government for these procedures.
Charles W. Pickering

The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist.
Cecilia Bartoli

The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations.
Benny Green

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
Alexis de Tocqueville

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.
Bob Greene

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.
Ethan Coen

The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies.
Stephen Cambone

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.
George Mason

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.
Rupert Holmes

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.
Bryant H. McGill

There are many experiments and a great deal of research that can be performed on the station that make a difference in our lives and we are committed to supporting this important vocation.
Marc Garneau

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.
Douglas Hurd