Quotes About Obligation

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.

You have to do what you have to do.

Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.

Offend her and she knows not to forgive Oblige her and she'll hate you while you live.

When you favour a woman, she will want to return the favour in so many means, but its better to rupidiate such offerings.

Being a star comes with not just fame and fortune, but with awareness and responsibility.

I think stardom means a big responsibility that one has to shoulder.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

As attorney general, I have a duty to defend the laws and constitution of the State of Missouri.

My job is to make certain that I've done what I was asked and my department has done what we were asked to do by the president and the first lady and the State Department. I believe that we accomplished that.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government, federal government - to be aggressive, to do its job. And its job is to report on whatever it's covering.

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.

I'm not a princess. My mother is, not I. I am the niece of a head of state. And with this status, I have some representational duties - nothing very constraining or very exceptional.

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

I've always stayed independent, but I've always felt an obligation to make movies an untutored audience could like.

Do you think the UFC is going to owe you a favor when you step up on short notice when nobody else is doing it? There's a reason a whole bunch of us aren't doing it. If you want to be that scapegoat, and think that the UFC's going to owe you one, good luck with that. Let me know how that goes.

Debt is the worst poverty.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.