In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I've always stayed independent, but I've always felt an obligation to make movies an untutored audience could like. — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation. — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
The law is a powerful thing but the law doesn't always change what's in people's hearts. And so all of us have… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
If citizens and those in the communities where Islamic terror festers are willing to take the risk of engaging and reporting suspicions,… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A person who is really saved by Grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serve… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
It's a little like packing for a trip. First you lay out everything that might possibly be useful, with no thought about… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I remember asking my dad, "Why didn't you ever move to the States? You probably could have made a lot more money."… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
It is the obligation of each person in Israel to raise up the Fallen Bride from the dust into which She has… — Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Copy Share Image
Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Children's Justice Campaign reminds us of our sacred obligation as adults to raise ourselves into consciousness so that our children may… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
We need a president who understands the first obligation of the commander-in-chief is to keep America safe. If I am elected president,… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Production speed is severely slowed down if one works with half-time people who have other obligations as well. This is at least… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S.… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“No one taps her deepest gifts through shame, guilt or anger. In fact, if you come from obligation, others smell the sadness… — Tama Kieves Copy Share Image
THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER AS BROTHERS-IN-ARMS. THEY DIED TOGETHER AND NOW THEY SLEEP SIDE BY SIDE. TO THEM WE HAVE A SOLEMN OBLIGATION. — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
I'm thankful for the ability to share my faith in a lot of different places. It's something that I take as a… — Tim Tebow Copy Share Image
Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation -… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
The more our feelings diverge, the more deeply felt they are, the greater is our obligation to grant the sincerity and essential… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
You cannot reason people into loving those whom they are not drawn to love; they cannot reason themselves into it; and there… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it. — John Lewis Copy Share Image
