Quotes About Obligation

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. -- The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service

No. I am not sad. I am not allowed to be. I am too useful to be sad.

The king never does an upleasent thing. Lord Cromwell does it for him.

You could not know, sir, what Katherine was asking.' That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.

Some debts should never be tallied, he says. "I myself, I know what is owed me, but by God I know what I owe.

favours that cannot be repaid eat away at the soul. Men scorn to live under an obligation. They would rather be perjurers, and sell their friends.

because we must please her, you know?

Christophe says, 'You are not sad, sir?' 'No. I am not sad. I am not allowed to be. I am too useful to be sad.

he's going out with Suffolk; you'll have to

Why is it always little legs that have to save big legs? Just run upstairs and fetch me ....... It flattered you, when you were young. You thought you were important, indeed essential. He used to hurtle around Putney, on errands for Walter. More fool him.

It was too much for the Commons to digest, that rich men might have some duty to the poor.

Is the heart always failing itself or by nature unfaithful? I had to restrain myself from writing to her too often, especially because she rarely wrote back or responded with the speed and in the manner I had allowed myself to expect. Some people manage to escape the obligation a sincere letter places on them.

La moralidad es un servicio doméstico, no una divinidad. Conviene usarla, pero no debe mandar

La lealtad y el amor no se pueden exigir.

No sooner therefore do you enter society, instead of living a life apart, than you are bound to consider its conditions binding; a contract is signed between you.

Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind and someone who knew a few things about hubris and humility, once said, "Life does not have an obligation to give you what you expect.

A thank-you card," repeated Alice. "Yes. I know, I know, it's teaching them good manners and everything, but I sort of hate those thank-you cards. I always imagine the kids groaning and having to be forced into writing them. It makes me feel like an elderly aunt.

Each obligation on its own seemed laughably easy. It was the sheer volume that threatened to bury her.

He did nothing that he wasn't obliged to do because the effort of existence exhausted him. He slept whenever he could. Getting up each morning was like moving his limbs through thick mud.

For someone who didn't want children, Erika had a wealth of parenting expertise she felt obliged to share. You

Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.

I know my role and I play it well.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.