The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to reframe obligation as opportunity. You don't have to spend Thanksgiving with… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons… — James Florio Copy Share Image
I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive one another. There… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Until I see proof of this reincarnation or cloning, I'm gonna live up this life. That was kinda the path I took.… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Our country and state have a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of our own population so as to credibly lead… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded,… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
~ Life without a purpose is meaningless. Without goals and obligations at all, it is like a scattered leaves waiting to be… — Vince Copy Share Image
When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers — Mathew Brady Copy Share Image
If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have… — June Callwood Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Congress has a moral and legal obligation to ensure our financial institutions act appropriately and ensure the playing field is reasonably accessible… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
A big part of being in a wedding is the financial obligation, and that's something that people don't really talk about, but… — Kristen Wiig Copy Share Image
It's a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an… — Ted Yoho Copy Share Image
But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Another obligation that I have as a teacher is to make available to students a range of options and devices and approaches,… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
“Somehow I believed it was my obligation to try to do the right thing by her because she had given birth to… — D.G. Kaye Copy Share Image
“... how much less is the sense of obligation in those who receive favours than in those who grant them." Somerset Maugham” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community. — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
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