Quotes About Obligation

When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last ' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

Her parents were religious people who never renounced their obligation to love their daughter or their obligation to be ashamed.

Then, like a dutiful wife, Sun Moon bathed in his leftover wash water.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

And it conferred power. The presentee was placed under an obligation to the presenter, and once she had been presented she magically metamorphosed into a presenter herself, able to pass on the gift to others in some curious apostolic succession.

Until 1922, for instance, equerries were expected to pay for their own cartridges when they were shooting with the king.)

Have ye never wondered if Baron Arundel's death was due in part to the aid he offered us?" Duncan frowned as he weighed the notion in his mind. "'Tis possible." "'Tis more than possible." Gavin looked Duncan straight in the eye. "We will aid her and her son. The McLendons pay their debts. Always.

Women have been driven mad, "gaslighted", for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other's sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

When you borrow money, you should always think how you're going to pay it back.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

There's some dues that you just have to pay in life.

I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much.

In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them.

If the federal government can mandate what we have to spend our own money on, then the federal government can make us buy something even if we are morally opposed to paying for it.

Men aren't able to retire and are going bankrupt making alimony payments.

I've got some kids out there; it's no secret. I've never been late on payments. I've handled it as best as I possibly can. There's no lawsuits. I try to stay on top of it.

A gentleman pays his debt within a week or two.

The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.

Nepal is our closest neighbour, and we must make every effort to ensure that, as a small neighbour, we attend to their perceptions. Even when they are wrong, we have an obligation to create an environment in which the common people in Nepal feel that in India they have a great friend.

By requiring all 30 million Americans age 18 to 25 to perform two years of national service, in the military or civilian life, we will be asking for a shared sacrifice from all American citizens.

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

The United States appears to be a debtor nation in perpetuity.