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Quotes About Obligation

Kissing babies and cutting ribbons I tell you, it bores me rigid.
~ Princess Michael of Kent
I made hats until I went into the Army. I was drafted during the Korean War.
~ Bill Cunningham
In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Why should I let you take it?" "Because you owe me." "Why do I owe you?" "Because I put up with you.
~ Karen Marie Moning
It will slay me alive to enforce this decision, but I will, and my father would expect—no, demand—no less from me. Jack Lane would be ashamed of me if I did otherwise. Possibly even despise me.
~ Karen Marie Moning
They're going to die on your doorstep because you're too much of a prick to save them." "The world is not my responsibility." "Obviously.
~ Karen Marie Moning
this is chesters mac.i gave her what she wanted.i give them all what they want.i'm not responsible for how fucking soulless their wants are. RYODAN- BURNED
~ Karen Moning
but God and country, you know. You do what you must.
~ Karen Robards
As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God
~ Karl Barth
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
~ Karl Kraus
I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.
~ Karl Kraus
I know who I am. Bloody hell, I'm getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, 'cos if I'm not, I have no idea who I'm paying for.
~ Karl Pilkington
I was given my power by someone much like me," said Tadis. "It is the power to create, but with this came the obligation to teach. I shall give you the power to create, Baz, just as I have. But never forget that the real power is that which we all have sleeping in our souls. It is the power to remove illusions, to see and feel who we really are. It is the power to love and forgive.
~ Kate Banks
Their chattel status continues in their loss of name, their obligation to adopt the husband's domicile, and the general legal assumption that marriage involves an exchange of the female's domestic service and (sexual) consortium in return for financial support.31
~ Kate Millett
The rise of shareholder capitalism entrenched the culture of shareholder primacy, with the belief that a company's primary obligation is to maximise returns for those who own its shares.
~ Kate Raworth
As the Queen put it, 'The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country under any circumstances whatsoever.
~ Kate Williams
To learn responsibility - each of us has to learn responsibility.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Part of growing up is doing things you don't want to do. When it's in the best interest of someone you love.
~ Katherine Howe
Science is all very well when a man can afford to make it his hobby, but I have come to the conclusion that a man has no right to ride a hobby while his family have to work to make a living." "But
~ G.A. Henty
But as much as I complained about my solitude, I also required it. I put a high price on my freedom from obligation, of having to report to no one.
~ Gail Caldwell
The greatest honor I could have given my family was that of my death, and I ran from it. I was frightened at not fulfilling my obligation, not giving ko to my parents. Yet, there was a voice inside of me that kept telling me to escape
~ Gail Tsukiyama
I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
~ Galileo Galilei
you must file annual reports and pay an annual fee to your state.
~ Garrett Sutton
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
~ Garrison Keillor