Quotes About Obligation

My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel that flipping those pages was a waste of time. And I still believe that.

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history has imposed upon them.

It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy.

I get up, because I'm supposed to, but if it were up to me, I'd stay in my seat for the rest of time.

A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.

That's important, I think, for people who come here to realize that we are here for only a time and we have an obligation of service and we need to keep things in perspective.

I don't intend to be insensitive to the victims and their families but, at the same time, as an actor, it's our job, and we are obligated to portray the characters in the most realistic way possible.

The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to reframe obligation as opportunity. You don't have to spend Thanksgiving with your family. You get to.

So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.

Every time I set up an interview, I say, "That's it, this is my last one. I'll do this because I committed to doing it, but I'm never doing another one."

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation.

If he was a wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Necessity knows no law.

Life is planned with one principle objective to make you do all the particular things you particularly don't want to do.

teria compreendido então que Trabalho consiste em tudo o que se é obrigado a fazer e que Prazer consiste naquilo que não se é obrigado a fazer.

implore him to be a merciful ass and trample his duty under foot.

If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

O trabalho consiste no que o corpo é obrigado a fazer, e o divertimento consiste no que o corpo não é obrigado a fazer.

only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

He would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

to make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man.

El trabajo consiste en lo que el hombre se ve obligado a hacer, y que el juego consiste en lo que el hombre no se ve obligado a hacer.