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Quotes About Obligations

costes derivados de abogados y demás también se añadirían a la cantidad pendiente.
~ John Grisham
She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at some appointed, prearranged time they seemed to stop the flow of affection and being the expectations - as if, for a brief phrase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations.
~ John Irving
for a brief phase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations. When
~ John Irving
for a brief phase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations
~ John Irving
I will return to Libya and undertake my duties and obligations to bring equality within the chaos.
~ Unknown
The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
~ Lucretia Mott
As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.
~ Twyla Tharp
Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.
~ Alexander Hamilton
The obligations of citizens is to make it clear that Aboriginal issues are central to our public concerns, that we want them dealt with in a fully democratic context of openness and justice, that we will vote accordingly.
~ John Ralston Saul
These treaties were signed not by the government but by the Crown, and therefore by the state, in the name of the people. And while our obligations are legal, they are first of all ethical.
~ John Ralston Saul
Maybe his wealth was entirely in unpaid bills.
~ John Steinbeck
To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
~ Pat Summitt
I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.
~ Isabel Allende
I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.
~ Taraji P. Henson
My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.
~ Thomas Steinbeck
In between all your goals, priorities, obligations, and everything else that might appear on one of your upcoming to-do lists, there are moments called life that still have to be lived and enjoyed.
~ Unknown
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort
~ Unknown
I have never said a word to you before about my illness. But as you asked me, and as now I may die at any moment … But whatever I do I mustn't make you late; you're dining out, remember," he added, because he knew that for other people their own social obligations took precedence of the death of a friend, and could put himself in her place by dint of his instinctive politeness.
~ Marcel Proust
Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences
~ Walter Cronkite
One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.
~ George Carlin
Nobody loves the way he ought to, he loves the way he has to or is allowed to.
~ Unknown
The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.
~ Martin Van Buren
In contrast, Confucians hold that we should show compassion to all human beings, but we have special obligations to certain individuals because of the specific relationships we have with them, relationships that make us who we are—family, community, and friendship. So part of the justification for differentiated care is the special debts we acquire through the relationships that help define us.
~ Massimo Pigliucci