Quotes About Obligation

She has a sign in her office: TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS REQUIRED.

Some of us as individuals find abortion offensive to our most basic principles or morality, but that cannot control our decision,' she said. 'Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code.

Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself. Without a spiritual base that obligates it beyond itself, calls it out of itself for the sake of others, a pedagogical feminism turned in on itself can become just one more intellectual ghetto that the world doesn't notice and doesn't need.

but I remembered what a therapist once told me, "People like doing favors for each other. Don't deny someone else the pleasure, Kiki, just because you can't handle feeling obligated.

I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!

As he claimed the right to enjoy the literature of any period for the joy that was in it, so he claimed the liberty to profit from the insights of every generation open to his study. He would have been ashamed to know nothing of what was being said, written or done in his own day; but he felt under no obligation to find it better than the products of previous time, and especially than those which had passed the sieve of old oblivion.

Catholicism succeeded because it kept its parishioners feeling guilty and therefore in the pews every Sunday,

How Much Do We Owe People We Love?

Bien sûr que non. Quand ils se tiennent mal, on n'est pas obligé d'aimer ses parents. Bien sûr que si. Pourquoi? Ben parce que ce sont tes parents justement... Pff...C'est pas dur d'être parents y suffit de baiser. C'est après que ça se complique...

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

Okazuje si?, ?e nie ma nic trudniejszego ni? by?. Podejrzewa?em to. Cz?owiek podpiera si? ca?? swoj? krz?tanin?, beznadziejnym poczuciem obowi?zku, pracowito?ci?, która jest tylko tchórzostwem, l?kiem przed samym byciem.

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

Now,' [her father] barked. She stiffly followed, still fully dressed in the elaborate navy-and-white gown she had worn all evening. It was hard not to feel as if the bare walls and surfaces she passed had been bled, leeched, into the cloth encasing her. Stripped paint and sacrificed heirlooms clinging to her, demanding she make everything right once more.

The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honored in contributing to those expenses.

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

Part of being grown up is acting the way you're supposed to act, even if you don't feel like it. Can you be grown up for me?

Essentially, kill criteria create a precommitment contract to quit.

Ils se sentaient toutefois le droit de faire la leçon aux imprévoyants ou de menacer l'enfant que sa mère envoyait exprès aux courses à sa place en fin de semaine, sans argent : « Dis à ta mère qu'elle tâche de me payer, sinon je ne la servirai plus. » Ils ne sont plus ici du bord le plus humilié.

Est-ce que tu pars à Noël ? » = ce serait mieux que tu partes, je ne serais pas obligé de venir te voir Ã¢â'¬â€œ ou, ce serait bien si tu restais ? Il se peut aussi que ces phrases n'aient pas d'importance pour lui, qu'elles soient de celles qu'on dit pour dire...

I don't sing professionally; I sing because people who make my films want me to sing. So, as long as they want me to croon in the film, I will sing.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

I think we are all programmed to please as we grow up.

People sometimes ask me why I did this or that project. I say, 'Well, they asked me.'

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.