I think, with the administration they do Constitutionally-mandated things most of the time, but they don't - they fulfill the letter of… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
“People like us, we think differently, don't we? We are different. We do all the things that others do. But when it… — Simon Morden Copy Share Image
Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We assess that there is no significant threat to the UK from nuclear weapons at present, but developments continue to be monitored… — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The Republican tax cut threatens to undercut both veterans health care and the veterans educational benefits that have been recognized for decades… — Lane Evans Copy Share Image
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
The saying "the business of art is different than the purpose of art" makes sense, and what are you going to do… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
True salvation is wholly a work of God. It is said to be both a finished work and a gift, and, therefore,… — Lewis Sperry Chafer Copy Share Image
Everything in the world can be made better, and everything in the world therefore should be made better. It deserves to be… — Phil Libin Copy Share Image
The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the obligation of Westboro Baptist Church to put the cup of God's fury to America's lips, and cause America to… — Fred Phelps Copy Share Image
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations,… — Humphrey Davy Copy Share Image
The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our… — Richard Shelby Copy Share Image
When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than… — Sally Jewell Copy Share Image
A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Art Exist for the human species I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all… — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
People want to be in love so badly that they throw themselves in it, without stopping to figure out if its real. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In so many ways, a lot of the drive I've had to do certain things has been because of this sense that… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of… — Sibel Edmonds Copy Share Image
For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental… — Allen Weinstein Copy Share Image
The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
