Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Within your sphere of responsibility you have as serious an obligation as do I within my sphere of responsibility. Each of us… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
If people are being downtrodden and mistreated, it's our obligation, it's our responsibility to speak out, not just for ourselves but for… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
I feel blessed to be in the broadcast business for 20 years. I believe that when you're this blessed, you have an… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
As the wealthiest country with all the blessings that we have, do we have an obligation to help the outside world? I… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
I think the great power of Bette Davis was she always knew who she was. She had an obligation to herself and… — James Woods Copy Share Image
The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
When we ask we are owning our needs. Asking for love, comfort or understanding is a transaction between two people. You are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Writing about someone well known removes that obligation of defending it as a subject, but it also means that some of the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Some families are an odd melting pot of strangers with the occasional offering of obligation.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time. — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I… — Laura Chinchilla Copy Share Image
