Quotes About Obligation

When indeed will we be mature enough to accept, for ourselves and our children, that there is no obligation to love, there is no guilt in not loving, and that the only valid basis for relationships...--between any human beings--is love freely given from both sides.

You can't convince me that I'm obligated to save you from yourself.

when you join something, they expect you to do it. To"—he shuddered—"participate.

everybody else thought it was there because it was supposed

Unity! Duty! And destiny!

But what refuses to leave my mind is the image of Drew and Kate making love before the camera. Mia viewed that photograph with me and felt no embarrassment at all. On the contrary, she wants to experience the same intensity she saw there with me. More than that, she's telling me beforehand that I'll have no obligation to her. Evolutionary nirvana, Caitlin called it. God, was she right.

Just because you will not see the work completed, does not mean you are free not to take it up.

Some men only really begin to like you when they find themselves in your debt.

The rest of us, all six billion of us, do pretty much what we are told!

When my father served in World War II, he wasn't told, 'Go to Europe for four months, for six months, and then you can come back, and there'll be plenty of big bases there for you to serve on, and don't worry about it.'

As a German, in view of the history of World War II and the terrible deeds of the Nazi period, I feel a special obligation to help as much as I can to develop European-Israeli relations and thus contribute to ensuring Israel's future and existence.

I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to.

When you do a first movie, you're contractually supposed to do the second one and then you don't do it, you become an executive producer. That's why there are a ton of directors who have executive producer credits on other movies.

Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.

Yeah, the first contract I signed, that was the first time I realized, Oh man, never mind, I don't want to do this anymore, but it was too late. I realized it was a bad thing because I wanted to try out for 'American Idol' and all these different things couldn't do that because I was in this contract.

My biggest obligation is to serve the people of this organization, and to serve them well. I serve them with the best benefit packages, whether it's health care, dental or a 401(k) plan. I support them with the tools they need to be the very best they can possibly be.

Toronto is my home. It's where my family is. I think I feel an obligation to be within subway distance of the people who raised me.

If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable.

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

Nicht umsonst sagt meine Frau immer: "Dich interessiert alles, außer deinen ehelichen Pflichten." Meine Frau versteht unter ehelichen Pflichten in erster Linie Nüchternheit.

My sisters and I cannot spend any substantial time searching for Wickham, as we are each commanded by His Majesty to defend Hertfordshire from all enemies until such time as we are dead, rendered lame, or married.