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Quotes About Obligation

My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do the right thing.'
~ Bernie Mac
If you're in a series, you can't quit, you can't work in the theatre and you can't do a movie when you like.
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
I've played a lot of roles I haven't wanted to play, either because they needed someone in the theatre or because they couldn't do it without me 'cause they don't have anyone else the right age.
~ John Mahoney
The testimony of anti-communist dissidents is clear: Only in solidarity with others can we find the spiritual and communal strength to resist. The longer we remain isolated in a period of liberty, the harder it will be to find one another in a time of persecution. We must see in our brothers and sisters not a burden of obligation but the blessing of our own freedom from loneliness, suspicion, and defeat.
~ Rod Dreher
In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.
~ Roger Stone
Do you work for the government, any government?" "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.
~ Roger Zelazny
sour taste of obligation postponed
~ Roland Merullo
With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.
~ Ron Wyden
The answer that we question most Is one we've heard you say, "You owe it to your country, boy, It's the American Way
~ Ronald J. Glasser
Government is like a big baby—an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
~ Ronald Reagan
My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights.
~ Ronald Reagan
The safest place for yourself and the children is in the path of duty.
~ Rosalind Goforth
You'll never get a family to understand that a man, related to them or not, is nothing but suspended putrefaction … No family will pay bills for suspended putrefaction …" For
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Responsibility is the ability to respond.
~ Lucille Ball
punctual discharge of his irksome duties.
~ Lytton Strachey
But the reality of life is such that at times one person does know better than the other what is good for the other, and in actuality is in a position of superior knowledge or wisdom in regard to the matter at hand. Under these circumstances the wiser of the two does in fact have an obligation to confront the other with the problem.
~ M. Scott Peck
In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.
~ Machado de Assis
cargo da cúria, mas as honras dele. Tio Cosme
~ Machado de Assis
La vita è piena di obblighi che si adempiono, per quanta voglia si abbia di trasgredirli sfacciatamente.
~ Machado de Assis
Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement.
~ Albert Camus
Success should not only be measured by what you get but by the stewardship of your duty.
~ Mensah Oteh
Intelligence is knowing what's required of you
~ Julian Pencilliah
Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.
~ James Q. Wilson
It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
~ Eduard Shevardnadze