Quotes About Obligation

Don't fall prey to the illusion that duty is only to others — you have just as much a duty to care for yourself.

when you start telling a man he's got to do this, that or the other thing, you're coming pretty damned close to infringing on a citizen's rights.

It is only human for physicists to be disappointed that decades of preparation have not yet led to experimental discoveries. Yet nature is under no obligation to reward every generation of physicists with another helping of it's juiciest secrets, along with the fulfilment that also follows, not to mention the approbation.

If Abraham was justified by faith, not works, then salvation is a free gift from God rather than an obligation on his part.

But once you've done what you had to, they'll never let you do what you want to.

I loved my mother because I didn't know I had a choice. I had to love her.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

Being a good parent is not an obligation, it is a choice. Plenty of people fall short in the parent category and quite a few refuse to accept it. You will do a much better job if you understand that taking care of your children is a choice not an obligation.

Si va avanti a spintoni e a ricatti... Il piacere come dovere. Il peccato come necessità. La rosa da cogliere come obbligo di pungersi. La gioia di volare come impegno di sfracellarsi. Il frutto da mordere come precetto di lasciarci la mano.

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

the Russian-American linguist Roman Jakobson encapsulated Boas's insight into a pithy maxim: "Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey." The crucial differences between languages, in other words, are not in what each language allows its speakers to express—for in theory any language could express anything—but in what information each language obliges it speakers to express.

Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

This book is my obliging you. This is a book I never would have dared write, if I did not feel protected and obligated by your madness.

Your triggers are your responsibility. It isn't the worlds obligation to tiptoe around you.

In short, the greatest gift of relationship proves to be that as the result of encountering each other, we are obliged to grow larger than we had planned.

Life is a loan, and we have to return it to the universe.

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

The sentimentalist is he who would enjoy without incurring the immense debtorship for a thing done.

PADDY LEONARD: What am I to do about my rates and taxes? BLOOM: Pay them, my friend. PADDY LEONARD: Thank you.

You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

While God had not forsaken this place, He was clearly expecting us to hold up our end, as it appeared He was needed elsewhere.

After Martha did her business and Cindy bagged

To whom much is given, much is expected