Quotes About Obligation

So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited.

Love is the only duty that we know.

But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.

It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.

Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the bills, you don't automatically have to be miserable.

an obligatory manifestation of matter, bound to arise wherever conditions are appropriate.

The worst imposition of all was to be instructed to take on some costly, long-standing obligation to the crown. Such was the fate of Bess of Hardwick's husband, the sixth Lord Shrewsbury. For sixteen years he was required to act as jailer to Mary, Queen of Scots, which in effect meant maintaining the court of a small, fantastically disloyal state in his own home.

My chest tightens at the thought of what all this could mean to Lilly. But I have no choice. I made a vow to defend this country, and I'm the only person who can do this.

You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody...

Miért kellene okosnak lennem… – Általában nem is érdemes, de néha muszáj – mondta Colin.

we still live in a world where might makes right. The moment we lose sight of that rule and start shrinking from our duties as a nation, is when we'll all need to begin trading in our minivans and baseball mitts for prayer rugs and Arabic lessons.

I typed becasue I had to. I typed because I was afraid I might disappear. --Edgar Mint

Assim nuas, precisávamos de proteção, e o hospital nos protegia. É claro que primeiro o hospital nos desnudava - mas isso apenas reforçava sua obrigação de nos dar abrigo.

Chris wasn't blameless, either. Taking a grieving, troubled boy into his home had to have been hard—especially when he'd been building his own family with Christopher Jr. and Ireland on the way. But he'd accepted the role of stepfather when he married Elizabeth. He shared responsibility for pursuing justice for a wounded and exploited child. Hell, a stranger would have an obligation to report the crime.

I don't like this life; but I do it. Like a good girl.

Family affection Was a kind of formal obligation, a duty Only noticed by its neglect.

A wolf is clever-clever-clever, and they are as faithful as a debt unpaid.

ATTORNEY: "When you sign one of our contracts, it says very clearly on page one hundred and seventeen that all crimes that occur onsite must be immediately and accurately reported to the company.

If only men would do what they should.

An account has come due. Debts must be settled.

I am a Trader and proud of it. We know that some accounts are written in blood and can be paid only in that. You have blood depts to settle.

So, he does not. Is it his fault? If he is the magician's slave he has no choice about what he will do in the matter of shadows. Have I a choice if Old Ash tells me to get wood?" "Wood and shadows are not the same.

But that was where Penelope was going to be that evening, and that meant that was where Colin would have to be as well.