Quotes About Obligation

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

I was asked to be in the last two 'Harry Potter' films and I couldn't do it because I was busy filming 'Grey's Anatomy.'

I'm in spend-down. I've got a billion in cash. You can't leave people a billion pounds, can you?

Under our Constitution, if you're a bad citizen, you're still a citizen; that's the way we roll.

I'm the elected sheriff, and I'm going to keep doing what the Constitution says I can do.

Consult duty not events.

When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

If you don't make weight, you're breaching a contract, straight up.

In show business, there's a lot of time when you're under contract, and you're not allowed to talk about things.

When you show me the right contract, I'll sign the right contract.

You can't sign just any contract.

When you sign a contract, you must respect that.

You cannot talk to a player who has a contract. It's not in my code.

Nobody will write in your contract that you have the assurance to play.

But for me, I have a contract with United and I am the loyal type.

You sign a contract for a reason. You're bound by law to do what you say you're going to do.

Being under contract gives you financial and emotional security. But you lose the sense of accomplishment that goes hand in hand with being a free agent.

At the end of the day, everyone is repsonsible for their own contracts. Nobody forced us to sign them.

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

No one will be hurt if I don't come to conventions.

If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.