Quotes About Obligation

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

As lawmakers, we have a duty to protect the people we represent.

When you're asked by the president to serve, it's awfully hard to say no, and I'm loyal.

I didn't have the luxury of devoting myself entirely to not-for-profit activities.

The makers of 'Ushakaal' said that if I don't do the film they would shelve the project. I didn't want a good subject to be shelved because of me so I went ahead and did the film.

I felt a mandate to go on TV.

she'd marry George who was richer anyway…lies, all lies! "I want you to do your homework from now on," Powell told the child.

Funny the way it was never enough to swear and promise just the once. You seemed to have to rethink and repromise every time the subject came up.

I only did my duty—if you can save somebody's life, it's your duty to try.

In India, I learned a proverb that may seem somewhat heartless: "The tears of strangers are only water." It means we are obligated to help only our own; if others have a problem, we wish them well, but it's their problem.

Whenever Omar is urged to condemn ISIS or Al-Qaeda, she evades the subject. Her rationale seems to be that Muslims have no special obligation to denounce terrorism conducted in the name of Islam. Thus, she refuses to denounce Islamic terrorism.

Whenever Omar is urged to condemn ISIS or Al-Qaeda, she evades the subject. Her rationale seems to be that Muslims have no special obligation to denounce terrorism conducted in the name of Islam. Thus, she refuses to denounce Islamic terrorism. For Omar the lesson of 9/11 is not to blame it on Muslims. Muslims as a group shouldn't be held responsible just because, in Omar's words, "some people did something.

It's hard to be beautiful. You have an obligation to people. You almost become public property. You can lose yourself and get almost mentally disturbed on just the public nature of being beautiful. Don't think I haven't thought about it. You can get completely lost in that whole dumb mess. And anyway who's to say what's beautiful and what's ugly?

We need to realize, my friend, that you and I are creatures, creatures of God, and as creatures of God, we owe Him something.

I'm only doing this because I started it and now I have to finish it," he adds. "The next trilogy will be all someone else's vision.

It's the obligation of all writers to shoulder up against the wall of the permissible and shove . Writers must shove no matter how large the obstacle and without concern for the strength of those pushing back from the other side. This shoving is made more difficult by the fact that those pushing back are very often the same shovers who moved the wall to where it now stands--they nudged it forward as far as they could stomach it, and cannot tolerate a millimeter more.

Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

Freedom was traditionally understood as the power to do what one ought to do.

I did infer, however, that submitting to melancholy would undo the labors of those who had come before me, that I had an obligation to resist instead of giving in. I rose unsteadily to my feet, aware of my shackles, but determined to somehow overcome them.

You don't have to like it; you just have to do it.

Ernie's past friendship. Your debt is to the living.

me. I don't want to have to feel grateful all the time.

But who, he wondered in a moment's panic as her nearing heat began to assault him, who enforces the Enforcer?