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
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only… — Clarence Darrow 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 may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility,… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“It would upset me to have to be discourteous to you, so I would be obliged if you did not communicate with… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
For years, I'd say yes to almost everything, trying to be nice and generous. Feeling obliged to be of service to the… — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
All during the day, in the chinks of time between the things we find ourselves obliged to do, there are the moments… — Frank Laubach Copy Share Image
In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason… — John Locke Copy Share Image
We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
it seems to me that grandmothers have a very special place in the affections of young children. Not obliged, as parents are,… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse… — William Hazlitt 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
During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before… — George Crook Copy Share Image
When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter,… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems… — Tim Berners-Lee 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
All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
