Quotes About Obligation

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

One has a sort of spiritual obligation to go back to the source material of the literature, to make contact with one of the seminal plays of the modern theater.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.

Your responsibility is to not question God's actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God's character.

The habit of rendering more service than is expected

Compromising is condoning. The only modern dictum I follow is one by George Santayana: A man is morally free when Ã¢â'¬Â¦ he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. This is not just an aim but an obligation.

A squeeze occurs when people have no choice but to do something, and do it right away, regardless of the costs.

Heikot toimivat tarpeidensa mukaan, vahvemmat velvollisuutensa.

Tales tinha o direito — mas não a obrigação — de usar as prensas caso houvesse um súbito aumento na demanda; a outra parte tinha a obrigação, mas não o direito. Tales pagou um preço pequeno por esse privilégio, com uma perda limitada e um grande resultado possível. É a primeira opção de que se tem registro. A opção é um agente da antifragilidade.

Excess wealth, if you don't need it, is a heavy burden.

The freer Nero's time, the more compelled he felt to compensate for lost time in filling gaps in his natural interests

Excess wealth, if you don't need it, is a heavy burden.

Compromising is condoning. The only modern dictum I follow is one by George Santayana: A man is morally free when … he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. This is not just an aim but an obligation.

Many are forced by peer and social pressures to do so

He did better emotionally with his own portfolio than with those of clients, since he was not obligated to monitor it continuously.

As the life and good fame of yonder man were in your hands there seemed no choice to me, save to be silent in accordance with your behest. Yet it was not without heavy misgivings that I thus bound myself, for, having cast off all duty towards other human beings, there remained a duty towards him

For standing between Cody and his pain is my obligation, and standing between my uncle and his pain is my rent, but the pain I coax from Bronte is my joy

She wanted to tell him how much she admired him for what he had done. Choosing compassion over obligation. There was a lesson to be learned in every gleaning, and today`s was one she would not soon forget. The sanctity of the law... and the wisdom to know when it must be broken.

Thou shalt kill.

You tell your brother he's gonna pay for that car in silver.

It's not that I don't want to, I'm just busy today. Can I throw you under a truck some other time?

A first step toward satisfying that responsibility for Europeans and their descendants in North and South America would be to treat indigenous people today with respect—something that, alas, cannot yet be taken for granted. Recognizing and obeying past treaties wouldn't be a bad idea, either.

Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.