Quotes About Obligation

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

The privilege of a free society is that every man, woman, and child has the opportunity - and the obligation as a free people - to determine the trajectory of their country, of a political race.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.

Marriage is no longer the only place where people make major life transitions and decisions, enter into commitments, or incur obligations.

But until then, He has given us dominion, and with dominion comes the responsibility of defending ourselves. When God created the animals, He also instilled in them the instinct of self-preservation. And they defend themselves by either fight or flight. And when He created mankind, He also gave us the ability and the obligation to defend our lives and our families from all harm, whether evil or benign.

Critón, le debemos un gallo a Asclepio. ¿Te acordarás de pagar la deuda?

Jacinda, join us. We're grilling on the back deck." "Dad, I don't think-" "I would love that," I lie. Eating with Will's dad ranks right up there with having my teeth drilled, but I have to get inside.

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

Why is man obliged to learn ignorance?

Dragostea este un mister pentru mine deocamdata. La noi se vorbeste despre casatorie, nu despre dragoste. Despre ascultare si supunere totala, nu despre relatii de iubire intre barbat si femeie. Doar despre o relatie sexuala obligatorie intre o fecioara si sotul ei, pentru care a fost cumparata. Altminteri, uitarea sau moartea. Atunci unde e iubirea?

el derecho impone también deberes y que el amor más puro acaba por fatigarse si no se siente correspondido.

usufrui o amor daqueles vinte milhões de pessoas como um direito, sem imaginar que o direito também exige responsabilidades, e que também o amor mais puro acaba por se esgotar quando não se sente retribuído.

My wife Staci made me go to a wedding last weekend...If it weren't for her, I'd be happy.

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.

Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.

The right to search for truth implies also a duty.

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.