Quotes About Obligation

I really do feel guilty that I don't visit me mum enough.

I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.

The Government should be held accountable if it puts soldiers at unnecessary risk, which is why it is vital to retain full transparency in inquests. Governments also have a moral obligation to ensure proper care for the injured and their families.

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.

Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

I vote and I do jury duty.

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.

As a citizen of a democratic state, I have always believed that when a prime minister is elected in Israel, even those who voted against him at the polls are obligated to desire his success.

We were against the war in Vietnam and for voter registration and social issues. Everybody has their choices, and the obligation of a comedian is first to entertain. And if you're so inclined, and you have some bigger thought, make sure you express it, because that's a gift.

I believe in the rule of law, and I respect the will of Colorado voters.

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

You shouldn't send people out to do a job which you cannot afford to equip them to do.

I feel like I have to share whatever I can. You're culpable if you don't act.

Barely a week goes by without me being asked to cut a ribbon somewhere, and I'm usually happy to oblige. Things to do with the Army mostly.

I have to hold up my end of the bargain and do what's expected of me.

If you're beholden to your dad, then you have to do what he says. I couldn't have that!

I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.

Podía intentar explicar que se regía por un código de orden superior; argumentar que, como moderno seguidor de las ideas de Henry David Thoreau, había adoptado como evangelio el ensayo titulado Sobre el deber de la desobediencia civil y consideraba que no someterse a unas leyes opresivas e injustas era una obligación moral.

My belief was that it was not only his right but his duty to do anything that the needs of the Nation demanded unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution or by the laws.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

from St. Luke: "For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.