I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
You have, at the same time, placed your confidence in me, and in my ability to render a free, fair judgment -… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is the foremost responsibility of the United States, having been the predominant nuclear power, to take the lead in scaling this… — George Lee Butler Copy Share Image
Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man… — Ben Ames Williams Copy Share Image
I never had the desire to be a professional Twitterer. Every now and then something dumb pops into my head and I'll… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot… — Morgan Fairchild Copy Share Image
...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell,… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I found it liberating to sing on camera. On stage, you have to indicate having a thought, and the word you are… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
The truth can be hard to take, but we have an obligation to look and see what's going on, and, if we… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it... In short,… — Sandra Postel Copy Share Image
Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I don't think there is an implicit obligation for the United States to follow like a stupid mule whatever the Israelis do.… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
An Obama administration truly looking to break with the molds of the past would stop treating Africa as an obligation and start… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
When we're true to ourselves, we become instruments of truth for the planet. Because we're all connected, we touch the lives of… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
On moral grounds, I think that if you believe a certain outcome is a very possible outcome, you have an obligation to… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists],… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
I have lived this life, and no matter what others may decide about it, I must claim each decision as mine. I… — Meredith Hall Copy Share Image
We do want people to know if in fact we learn of an incident that's focused on a particular city.If we learn… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Among the immediate obligations and duties resting upon members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today, and one of… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Because I'm a performer I can justify and sometimes sell the things about me that offend and shock the conventional world. I… — Elizabeth Ashley Copy Share Image