Quotes About Obligation

we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

You know how it is- you get used to something, people rely on you, one day you wake up and you can't tell Tuesday from Thursday. You're doing the same boring stuff.

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to. Sometimes because they want to. Always, they fell they are supposed to.

You know how it is--you get used to something, people rely on you, one day you wake up and you can't tell Tuesday from Thursday. You're doing the same boring stuff, you're a 'ride man

There is no forgiveness in ancestor worship, only retribution and eternal debt.

If one could enumerate all the essentials which a sound educational program consider, I would say that the techniques of communication, which make for literacy, are our first obligation, and more so in a cemocracy than in any other kind of society, because it depends on a literate electorate.

The four questions stated above summarize the whole obligation of a reader. They apply to anything worth reading—a book or an article or even an advertisement.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity

Don't you think I'm owed those lives?

Why do law-abiding and productive human beings owe anything to those who neither produce very much nor abide by just laws? What philosophical or economic or spiritual justification is there for owing then anything? ...The question gaped beneath her, but she didn't try to evade it. I don't know. I just know we do.

Because that's what the story's really about: getting out of paying your debts. That's not how they tell it, but I knew. My father was a moneylender, you see.

Because that's what the story's really about: getting out of paying your debts.

They are ours," he said, "although not properly the sailors: they are only along because we would not leave them to drown, and ought to be more grateful for it than they are. Laurence," he said, turning, "this is Palta, and that man is called Taruca: Iskierka snatched him, and I cannot find she asked him in the least.

Permaneció al lado de sus amigos porque pensaba que ésa era su obligación. Le mató la lealtad a gentes, cuando les llegó la hora, le traicionaron. Nunca te fíes de nadie, Daniel, especialmente de la gente a la que admiras. Ésos son los que te pegarán las peores puñaladas…

Hasta entonces para mí las lecturas eran una obligación, una especie de multa a pagar a maestros y tutores sin saber muy bien para qué. No conocía el placer de leer, de explorar puertas que se te abren en el alma, de abandonarse a la imaginación, a la belleza y al misterio de la ficción y del lenguaje.

We don't betray the ones that want to drown us, but the ones that reach out to us, if nothing, just because we don't admit we owe them gratitude.

The fall of the righteous is always brought about by people who are most indebted to them. One doesn't betray those who want to ruin us but those who offer us a hand, even if only because we don't wish to acknowledge the debt of gratitude we owe them.

it's occurred to her that there are millions, billions, of other men and women in the world who wake up early in their separate beds, greedy for the substance of their own lives, but obliged every day to reinvent themselves.

I'm like the mailman, said Papa, and when the kids looked confused, he quoted, Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow can keep me from my appointed rounds! Not even thundersnow! added Grant, and they all laughed heartily.

Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants.

Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants

Sabotai smiled. "You know the Yasa—if your clan needed you you could have refused to come.

The funny thing about this existence is that once firmly settled we occupy it with less guard than we know...We feel ever obliged by everyday charges and tasks. They conscript us more and more. We find world enough in a frame. Until at last we take our places at the wheel, or wall, or line, having somewhere forgotten that we can look up.

No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up.