Quotes About Obligation

Gracias por venir, Simón, pero no debes volver. Tienes que dejarme hacer lo que debo hacer.

What if...what if that is the price one has to pay for staying on? Perhaps that is how they look at it: perhaps that is how I should look at it too. They see me as owing something. They see themselves as debt collectors, tax collectors. Why should I be allowed to live here without paying?

Qué suerte no tener hijos, pensó: qué suerte no desear ser padre. No sabría qué hacer aquí, en lo más profundo del país, con un niño que necesitaría leche, ropa, amigos y un colegio. No cumpliría con mi deber, sería el peor de los padres. En cambio no es difícil vivir una vida que consiste únicamente en pasar el tiempo.

Es posible, pero hay consideraciones superiores a obedecer la ley, imperativos superiores. –Ah, ¿sí? No lo sabía. Gracias, pero a mí me basta con la ley.

No, of course John did not love his father, he did not love anybody, he was not built for love. But he did feel guilty about his father. He felt guilty and therefore behaved dutifully. With certain lapses.

Life is about doing what is necessary, and you did.

It would be a duty that I would seek to fulfill all the nights I am upon this earth." Mary

Signing a treaty is a declaration by a state that it intends to be bound by the treaty.

Il mondo mi deve un paio di cose.

Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.

You have to go where the truth takes you, and that doesn't always take you in exactly the same place where people you speak to might want,or suspects may want. That's your ultimate obligation.

Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.

Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.

Tens of millions of Americans are modern-day slaves - unable to retire early, or working in jobs they don't really want, just for the health insurance they need to take care of themselves, a spouse, or a child with a 'preexisting condition.'

When you've left your children and their mother unable to pay for the roof over their head, it's not acceptable.

I prefer not to fly, but sometimes it's unavoidable.

Quite honestly, one of the unavoidable considerations in going exclusive with any company is being put on a company's medical insurance program.

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.

Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

Of course, freedom is not free. Taxpayers pay for it.