“Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted.” — Anne Robert Jacques Turgot Copy Share Image
Do you look forward to going to church, or is it something you do out of obligation? — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“The Pudding of Obligation. (Placed upon the Doily of Resentment.)” — Theo Ellsworth Copy Share Image
To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
When I went to school - Pasadena Playhouse - we were taught that the obligation of the actor is twofold: to entertain… — Sid Haig Copy Share Image
To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little… — Andrea Pirlo Copy Share Image
There's a duty and an obligation to community that we must teach our children to honor no matter how far they go.… — Rhymefest Copy Share Image
Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Of all earthly blessings, I place Liberty in the first rank, and of course, consider the obligation to defend and preserve it,… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to… — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
I guess what I'd like to say is that people in Sierra Leone are human beings, just like Americans. They want to… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It is important to know when you feel down that many others do also and that their circumstances are generally much worse… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
“She was like a queen who beholds the virgin soil of her kingdom invaded and wasted by a traitor. Any other thing… — Ouida Copy Share Image
I believe we're all aware that there are people and organizations throughout the world who are bent on destroying America, everything we… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The concept of 'purgatory' is in Catholic Church dogma, and most black people are not Catholic - mostly their Christian realities focus… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
