Quotes About Obligation

Truth... has no obligation to console you.

Every law requires a response

"If a person is not willing to take responsibility for themselves, it does not excuse them from not taking responsibility when their bad choices affect others.

You will do what looks good to you on paper / We will do what we must.

I saw a lot of friends and acquaintances turn their bands which were previously something that they did out of passion into a shot at a small business," Steve Albini told the venerable zine Punk Planet. "In the course of doing it, they ended up hating their bands in a way that I used to hate my job, because it became something they had to do: it was an obligation.

Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.

Fatherhood impose[s] an obligation that [is] more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.

series you followed. Not even if you died. Alive or dead or a thousand miles distant, you were always going to be on the hook for work that was neither a procedure nor a series of steps but, rather, something that demanded your full, constant attention without necessarily calling on you to do, perform, or say anything at all.

I'm going to have to go out there. She had a mother and a brother. See who's still around and can look at this thing. Harry, you sure you-- You think I have a choice?

It was a stock answer and I noted that going beyond government requirements when there were no such requirements meant nothing.

She knew she was going to have trouble believing in herself, in the room of her house, and when she glanced over at this new book on her nightstand, stacked atop the one she finished last night, she reached for it automatically, as if reading were the singular and obvious first task of the day, the only viable way to negotiate the transit from sleep to obligation.

This moment may come to us all, at some point in our eventutal move from health into sickness. We abandon our old obligation to consider the needs of others, and give ourselves up to their care. There is a shift in status. We become citizens of a new realm, and although we retain the best and worst of our former selves we are no longer bodily in command of our fates.

She'd taken on the obligation to be a treasure. And the strain was starting to show. People paid a price for this kind of orderly existence, all this obedience.

M? impresioneaz? efortul,nu obiectul.S? cer ceva rar È™i valoros ar însemna s? transform devotamentul în obligaÈ›ie.

The Glory was entrusted to you, you weren't given permission to pass it on as you see fit.

Life is not about hoarding wealth but about spreading it around. God can act to see to it that the creation is nourished, but he uses us humans to see to it that our fellow humans have their needs met. We live in a world where the poor are daily reminders that we too have an obligation to meet, not only to ourselves but also to one another. In order to do this we, like Jesus, need to eschew three things: comfort, safety and security.

Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck—and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

don't do favors. I accumulate debts. —Ancient Sicilian motto

I don't do favors. I accumulate debts. —Ancient Sicilian motto

And that would be unconscionable, I suppose, to feel any obligation? Yes. Of course it would. Katherine cliffton The English Patient

As the wedded pair have given each other power over their bodies, it would be a grave sin for one to refuse either altogether or for a considerable time the fulfilment of the marriage debt.

I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.

Part of being a Manchester United player under Sir Alex Ferguson, perhaps the most important part of being one of United's attacking players was that when you were in possession, you had to take risks in order to create goal-scoring chances. It was not an option; it was an obligation.

It doesn't really matter the score or the situation: I got a job to do.