We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our… — Blythe Danner Copy Share Image
The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights.… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone,… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
The United States says "We're complying. We're following the disarmament obligation. Look at the quantitative reductions that are taking place." But, since… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
My obligation right now is to do well for myself, my family, my employees, for my companies. And that's what I do. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Inspiration is not the one who will help us perform our obligations or responsibilities but to help us have our confidence for… — Rona Dela Torre Copy Share Image
As a journalist - or as a writer - my obligation is to come as close to the truth as I possibly… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
First and foremost my obligation is on the defensive side. But obviously there are times when I need to go and attack,… — DeAndre Yedlin Copy Share Image
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal. — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
I think when a surfer becomes a surfer, it's almost like an obligation to be an environmentalist at the same time. — Kelly Slater Copy Share Image
Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with… — John W. Snow Copy Share Image
If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
There are things you don't want to happen, but have to accept, things you don't want to know, but have to learn,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
When you're running for president, I think you have an obligation to be healthy. I just don't think you can do the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The president is under no obligation to sign the spending bills that Congress gives to him. And once that happens, once he… — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary… — John R. Leopold Copy Share Image
It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you… — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligation and… — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
