I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. — Pierre Beaumarchais Copy Share Image
I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.' — Patrick Chappatte Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in characters who are closed down, but who open up when they choose to, rather than when they're obliged… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I want to have different Ferraris for different Ferraristi. We have a lot of parallel activities that can increase revenues without being… — Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Copy Share Image
I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable… — Milton Babbitt Copy Share Image
When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded… — Hannibal Copy Share Image
At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race… — Theodore J. Forstmann Copy Share Image
The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate. — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy. An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged,… — Heloise Copy Share Image
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In the case of a meltdown, the regulatory authorities may find themselves obliged to step in to preserve the integrity of the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Today's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
