Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government. — Enrique Pena Nieto 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
A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in… — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists. — Annalena McAfee Copy Share Image
When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of… — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whereas a lot of men used to ask for conversation when they really wanted sex, nowadays they often feel obliged to ask… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in… — Jermaine Jackson Copy Share Image
He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and… — Octave Mirbeau 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
I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
“We feel ever obliged by everday charges and tasks. They conscript us more and more. We find world enough in a frame.… — Chang-rae Lee Copy Share Image
We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests.… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
The breakdown of Plato's philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of… — Marion Kirkland Reid Copy Share Image
Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude, — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned… — James Buchan 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 sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I am much obliged by the favorable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service… — George Stephenson Copy Share Image
