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
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 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 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
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 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
Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to… — Chuck Feeney Copy Share Image
I think both freedom of religion and freedom of expression are both fundamental human rights, everyone has not only the freedom and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel's book. Not for everyone is this record kept,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I think what we need to do is understand our number one obligation is to act in the national interest of the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Obviously when you come into competition with other schools and you become aware of anything that concerns you, you have an obligation… — Bret Bielema Copy Share Image
It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the… — Neil Gaiman 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the… — Luis de Guindos 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
I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess… — Dave Heineman Copy Share Image
I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
