That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some… — Barbara Steele Copy Share Image
Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been… — Peter Stuyvesant Copy Share Image
we can't know a road until we travel it. Hearing about it is not enough. We are obliged to travel over it. — Virginia Cary Hudson Copy Share Image
I don't want an angry song with no silver lining ending up on my album. Then I'd have to play, or feel… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it's… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged… — Victoria Wood Copy Share Image
But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The dollar represents a one dollar debt to the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Banks create money out of thin air… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication- after that it is only an account of something which that person says was… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was… — John Sutter Copy Share Image
Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
