Quotes About Obligation

ALWAYS give an autograph when somebody asks you.

the only thing worse than failing to do what was demanded of her was actually doing it.

I have come to understand god as a mystery for whom it is a privilege to seek or even deny, rather than as one for whom it is my obligation to perform.

even if he believed he was entitled to do so under his own contract with King Charles.

King Charles was supposed to pay for Magellan's ships, according to the contract, he was deeply in debt.

thenceforward forever the said Enrique may be free and manumitted, and quit, exempt, and relieved of every obligation of slavery

If you are receiving Medicare and were receiving Social Security benefits when you suspended them, your Medicare payments can no longer be paid automatically and deducted from your Social Security payments. You will need to pay your Medicare premiums out of your own pocket. Don't forget this, as failure to do so can mess up your benefit suspension.

These are your children, and like it or not, they are your responsibility. I presume you got these infants on my sister like a man, and if you want to walk and piss like a man, you can damn well learn to take care of your family like a man, too!

If every individual be bound to society, society is equally bound to him, by a contract which from its nature equally binds both parties. This obligation, which descends from the throne to the cottage, and equally binds the highest and lowest of mankind, signifies nothing more than that it is the interest of all, that conventions, which are useful to the greatest number, should be punctually observed. The violation of this compact by any individual is an introduction to anarchy.

We feel ever obliged by everday 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.

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.

To do one's duty every day and trust in God for tomorrow.

Because of their sacrifice, you must escape. If you don't, everything up until now will have been in vain." "But

Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.

Nobody was hard with him or with me. There was duty to be done, and it was done, but not harshly.

Mr. Wititterly, it should be observed, was accustomed to owe small accounts, and to leave them owing. All men have some little pleasant way of their own; and this was Mr. Wititterly's.

I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

Your friend lends and your enemy asks payment.

Nothing is more expensive than penuriousness; nothing is more anxious than carelessness; and every duty which is bidden to wait, returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Nothing weights lighter than a promise.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.

Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does one's self.