Quotes About Obligation

I'm not attached to anything. I'm attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.

A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us.

The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely a naturalist is that the Christian novelist lives in a larger universe. He believes that the natural world contains the supernatural. And this doesn't mean that his obligation to portray the natural is less; it means it is greater.

The sorry religious novel comes about when the writer supposes that because of his belief, he is somehow dispensed from the obligation to penetrate concrete reality. He will think that the eyes of the Church or of the Bible or of his particular theology have already done the seeing for him, and that his business is to rearrange this essential vision into satisfying patterns, getting himself as little dirty in the process as possible.

I had left everything because of my marriage. As a girl, I know what my responsibility towards my husband and his family is, and I used to do everything according to his will. I kept all his family members in mind, but he still expected more from me.

I have a lot of family members and friends that depend on me.

The burden of citizenship is accepting that what is neither your fault nor your responsibility may be your problem.

I want to feel good about paying taxes.

We get paid to do this work, and fellow senators need to do their jobs.

I have done what I felt to be my duty.

Like pretty much every other ambitious person, I always figured I'd eventually move to New York. It is, at this point, half-dream and half-obligation for people trying to do big things. It's the American Dream inside the American Dream.

I entered the film industry because my family forced me into it.

When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.

I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

I think I feel that way - that filmmaking is a responsibility, not only creatively but also financially in that it's a business. You can't forget that.

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

I finished 'America America,' and I knew I had to write another book, not just for personal reasons but because I had a contract.

I firmly believe that to whom much is given, much is expected.

First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Do not have any doubt that I will apply the law over whoever is responsible for not complying with the law.

That's what the CTC means, whoever cuts that check, that's who I have to play for.

Whoever you are - whether you're Paris Hilton, anyone - if you do something illegal there's a consequence.