Quotes About Obligation

It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

I need money. I have a staff of 30, and four houses, never mind the government, to support.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.

It's not long-term debt if the money is immediately paid back.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Borrow a little and if you can't pay it back, it's your problem. Borrow a lot and if you can't pay it back, it's the lenders problem.

Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Venus de Milo's mother, who once said to Venus, You never call me. Can't you pick up a phone? Never got a dinner!

From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

The most important job you will ever have is your commitment to a promise you made to someone.

Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.