Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for your salvation. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to murder you. — Robert Stacy McCain 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
What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole… — William Penn Copy Share Image
In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won… — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image
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
I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having it perceived. For example, a madness has seized… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“How sad is it when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Google will be obliged either to accept Chinese regulations or exit the world's largest Internet market, with serious consequences for its long-term… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
My sweetest Joy is to be in the presence of Jesus in the holy Sacrament. I beg that when obliged to withdraw… — Katharine Drexel Copy Share Image
That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder… — William Penn Copy Share Image
I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Hell is to be contemplated strictly as a matter which concerns me alone. As part of the spiritual life it belongs behind… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
I often used to think myself inthe case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Quite a different thing is, if a seeker, dissatisfied by materialism and doctrines, and longing for spiritual support, will ask advice and… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and… — Charles Perrault Copy Share Image
Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I have been an atheist my entire adult life. I do not proselytize, however. Nor do I question the faith of others.… — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged… — Lewis Thomas 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
You are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with prayer, counseling him… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
