Quotes About Obligations

For in seeing the sufferer suffering—thereof was I ashamed on account of his shame; and in helping him, sorely did I wound his pride. Great obligations do not make grateful, but revengeful;

Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.

At any given moment, we each face a barrage of obligations, often disparate and distinct from what we thought would happen when we woke up. From the tragic to the common to the extraordinary, life refuses to be divvied up into careful slices of time. No technology can manage to overcome the realities of reality.

As a former officer in the U.S. Navy, I understand the importance of a strong national defense and our enduring obligations to all the women and men who serve in uniform to secure our freedom.

To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly.

Assaulted as we are with so many advertisements, messages, appeals, theories, and obligations, we are in danger of losing our way, if not our sanity. We must choose just those few things that we really value. If we filter out the rest and focus on these, we can regain our perspective, and our happiness.

Busyness is no excuse for neglecting our duties to family, friends, and community.

12. From Alexander the Platonist, not to say to anyone often or without necessity, nor write in a letter, I am too busy, nor in this fashion constantly plead urgent affairs as an excuse for evading the obligations entailed upon us by our relations towards those around us.

Cel mai r?u e c? nici tata, nici mama nu înÈ›eleg c? nu-È™i îndeplinesc obligaÈ›iile fa?? de mine È™i c? eu îi condamn pentru asta. Poate oare cineva s?-È™i mulÈ›umeasc? pe deplin copiii?

Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring.

Tally snorted. "I don't think it's exactly boring, Shay." "Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun." "I can," Tally said quietly. "Never having any.

Until I see proof of this reincarnation or cloning, I'm gonna live up this life. That was kinda the path I took. But I fulfilled my obligations.

A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.

The meaning of your life comes through your obligations to others.

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

that material like Hammurabi's stele imposed no obligations on society or the courts. It did not represent at any level the "law of the land," and there is no call to obey. This assessment is confirmed by the fact that it does not serve as a reference in the judicial system, which is illuminated for us through thousands of court documents.

Danilaw's underlying genetic users meant his own emotional balance could stray from perfection and his inherited neurochemistry meant that his rightminding fell in need of more frequent-than-usual maintenance. Not enough to cause a social disadvantage, or free him from Obligations-but enough to make him wish sometimes it might.

In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.

He wanted to show that man has to return to his most basic nature in order to discover his true self and that everything that is not part of that self, including property and normal social and political obligations, was a useless distraction.

On one side, interaction with others sharpens our minds and deepens our understanding. But it also teaches us about our obligations toward others—

He fully discharged the obligations of every relationship that He sustained, either to God or to man.