Quotes About Obligation

For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it.

Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!

A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then?

His protestations went unheeded, for they were gathered to attend a funeral and one was expected to say the right things.

We cannot bring ourselves to bite the hand of the master who feeds us.

I thought you liked reading books. I do, but if you only read books because you have to, it becomes much less fun.

if you're only reading books because you have to, it becomes much less fun.

In ground forces, when someone does you a favor you tell them you owe them a sex act. If it's a little thing, it's a handjob. Medium, blowjob. Big favor, you owe them a fuck. Force of habit. It's just an expression. Got it, Dahl said. No actual blowjob forthcoming, Duvall said. To be clear. It's the thought that counts.

It's your job to save humanity, Perry." "No pressure there

Remind me again why I hired you." "I honestly don't know, Lady Nadashe. But inasmuch as you've already paid me, in advance, for roughly the next forty years—thank you for that, by the way, my wife loves the new dining room set probably more than she loves me—you might as well keep me.

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

The preacher rose high on his elbow. Law changes, he said, but 'got to's' go on. You got the right to do what you got to do.

When a man is finally boxed and he has no choice, he begins to decorate his box. So Hazel, condemned to the presidency, since he could not escape it, began to ornament it. A man can climb high on the steps of responsibility.

Law changes, he said, but 'got to's' go on. You got the right to do what you got to do.

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try. It piles up ahead of them. Man owes something to man. If he ignores the debt it poisons him, and if he tries to make payments the debt only increases, and the quality of his gift is the measure of the man.

There's no beholden in a time of dying, said Wilson, and Sairy echoed him, Never no beholden. p. 145

We're proud to help,'' said Wilson. "We're beholden to you,'' said Pa. "There's no beholden in a time of dying,'' said Wilson, and Sairy echoed him, "Never no beholden.

It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind, is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society; and that if the parent does not fulfil this obligation, the State ought to see it fulfilled, at the charge, as far as possible, of the parent.

Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.

You owe some things to the dead even if they're not your own dead. I guess in some way they're all your own.

Maybe a little," says Jacob. "You see, it's not my wife who needs a favor. It's my son." "First your wife, and now your son? It's as I always say. There is no host in the

The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are. Things get simpler. In some ways, it's as if you died and the world continued on. If you did die, all your responsibilities and obligations would immediately evaporate. Their residue would somehow get worked out without you.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.