Quotes About Obligation

The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.

I had seen beauty, but the beauty had burdened me with responsibility.

Take up the White Man's burden,Send forth the best ye breed—Go, bind your sons to exileTo serve your captives' need.

THERE IS NO FREE LUNCH. YOU'LL PAY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEAL OR AT THE END, BUT TRUST ME, YOU WILL PAY.

The downside is that by recognizing our total dependence on powers beyond ourselves, we can be filled with an overwhelming sense of religious obligation and guilt at not fulfilling it. One way out of this sense of inadequacy is to become an atheist. If everything happens automatically and unconsciously, if there is no purpose or providence in the world, then there is nothing to feel grateful for. But this liberation comes at a high price. Being ungrateful is often accompanied by unhappiness.

He more than once asked a prospective client, 'Do you realise that the only thing you can spend a hundred thousand dollars on without incurring an obligation to spend a great deal more for its upkeep is a picture? Once you've bought it, it costs you only a few hundred dollars every fifteen years for cleaning.' It was a revolutionary sales argument, and one admirably adapted to American royalty.

Ništa me nije plašilo toliko kao obligacija da ispravljam o meni ste?ena tu?a pogrešna uvjerenja.

Responsibility simply means your ability to respond.

Odiosa razza di uomini, quella che rinfaccia i favori, che dovrebbe ricordare chi li ha ricevuti, non chi li fece.

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

whether half frozen or well warm; whether only slumbering, or after a full sleep; whether discommended or commended thou do thy duty: or whether dying or doing somewhat else; for that also "to die," must among the rest be reckoned as one of the duties and actions of our lives.

Haga o diga alguien lo que quiera, obligado estoy a ser bueno. Como

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

We may, I think, give the name of perfect duty to the absolute right, which the Greeks term ?????????;1 while contingent duty is what they call ????????.2 According to their definitions, what is right in itself is perfect duty; that for the doing of which a satisfactory reason can be given is a contingent

Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even if she liked it she had to pretend she didn't. Then she was supposed to like it. To make her do something she didn't like and then make her like it, that was greater power. The greatest power of all is when she doesn't really like it but she's supposed to like it, so she has to pretend.

He owes me, but that could prove a liability. Some people do not enjoy being indebted.

Where there is an emptiness, the mind will obligingly fill it up. Fear is always at hand to supply any vacancies, as is curiosity.

There is nothing more onerous than enforced gratitude.

WITHOUT MEMORY, there is no debt. Put another way: without story, there is no debt.

W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she condemn you to such a life?' 'Well, you see, she had a rather gloomy idea of life. She thought we are all born to suffer and the more we suffer now the less we shall hereafter. She thought it was wrong to be happy. I expect she worked all that out because she was married to Father.' (116)

If God had seen fit to punish them so, then God could very well do without prayers. Religion had always been a bargaining process with Scarlett. She promised God good behavior in exchange for favors. God had broken the bargain time and again, to her way of thinking, and she felt she owned Him nothing now.

A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.

For many of us gratitude to others comes with a sense of debt that can never be fully paid and therefore the things we are thankful for are never really ours.

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.