We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the… — Alain Aspect Copy Share Image
I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if… — Edward VII Copy Share Image
The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] also says that nothing is true which forces exclusion. From that, you're obliged to accept contradictions if you don't want… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom,… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14. — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget,… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I haven't seen any poet in this country behave nearly as rudely as Newt Gingrich or Bill O'Reilly. I'm not asking these… — Sam Hamill 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